Bob Rockwell

Bob Rockwell, Aarhus Jazz Festival

Bob Rockwell (born May 1945 in Miami (Oklahoma) ) is an American jazz - tenor saxophone and soprano saxophonist , who with the Ben Webster Prize was awarded.

Live and act

Rockwell grew up in Minneapolis and began his music career in various rock and R&B bands. In the late 1960s he was working in Las Vegas ; In the early 1970s he moved to New York City , where he worked as a session musician a. a with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis , Tito Puente , Ben Sidran , Freddie Hubbard , Ray Drummond , Billy Hart , Rufus Reid , Victor Lewis , Ron McClure , Chuck Israels , John Hicks , Al Foster , Anthony Cox , Bill Dobbins and Richie Beirach worked .

In 1983 Rockwell moved to Copenhagen , where he has lived and worked ever since. Rockwell worked there in 1986/87 on albums by Tom Harrell and Joe Bonner and recorded a number of albums for the SteepleChase Records label , including a. with Jesper Lundgaard and Butch Lacy , around 1990 in a trio with Rufus Reid and Victor Lewis . In Europe he also played with Ernie Wilkins , Kenny Drew , Andy LaVerne , Alex Riel , Marilyn Mazur , Kenny Wheeler and Jan Kaspersen . In 1992 he recorded the duo album Light Blue with Lundgaard , which critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton call Rockwell's best album; In 1994 he worked on Michael Mantler's big band production Cerco Un Paese Innocente ; in 1995 he also worked with Tony Coe and the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra ( Captain Coe's Famous Recearound ). In 1997 he performed with Gary Bartz , Jeanne Lee and Jorge Pardo at the San Sebastian Jazz Festival ( Music for Ebbe ). Since the 2000s he has recorded albums for the Danish stunt label with the music of Alec Wilder , Ben Webster and Benny Golson .

Discographic notes

• Androids ( Celebration Records , 1974)
• No Rush ( SteepleChase Records , 1985)
• On the Natch (SteepleChase, 1985) with Butch Lacy, Jesper Lundgaard
• The Bob Rockwell Trio (SteepleChase, 1989) with Rufus Reid & Victor Lewis
• Reconstruction (SteepleChase, 1990) dto.
• Trio (SteepleChase, 1990)
• Light Blue (SteepleChase, 1995) Duo with Jesper Lundgaard
• Shades of Blue (SteepleChase, 1996) with Andy LaVerne, Jesper Lundgaard
• After Hours (Go Jazz, 1985-97; published 1999)
• It's All Right With Me (Pony Canyon, 2001)
• Love Eyes (Pony Canyon, 2001)
• Bob's Wilder: Music of Alec Wilder ( Stunt Records , 2003)
• Bob's Ben: A Salute to Ben Webster (Stunt, 2005)
• Jens Søndergaard & Bob Rockwell More Golson (Stunt, 2012)

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001.

Web links

• Works by Bob Rockwell in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bob Rockwell at Discogs (English)