Bob Scobey
Robert Alexander "Bob" Scobey (born December 9, 1916 in Tucumcari , New Mexico , † June 12, 1963 in Montreal ) was an American trumpeter and next to Turk Murphy and Lu Watters an important band leader of the Dixieland Revival in San Francisco .
Scobey grew up in California and played in dance bands in the 1930s. In 1938 he began to play jazz and in 1940 became second trumpeter in the "Yerba Buena Jass Band" by Lu Watters , which started the Dixieland Revival in San Francisco. From 1949 he had his own band "Bob Scobey's Frisco Band", which appeared from 1950 to 1953 in "Victor and Roxie's". An important member of this band was Clancy Hayes , who worked there as a banjo player and singer; he left Scobey's band in 1959. The "Frisco Band" never played outside of California, but was televised in 1952/53. In 1953 they played with Louis Armstrong in the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena . In the same year they moved to "Rancho Grande" in Lafayette . Scobey opened the club "Bourbon Street" in Chicago in 1959 , played in clubs there and died in 1963 in Montreal, Canada of cancer. His wife Jan Scobey published his biography “He rambled! Til Cancer put him down "(at Pal). He also recorded with Sidney Bechet .
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
Web links
- Bob Scobey at Allmusic (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scobey, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scobey, Robert Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tucumcari |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12, 1963 |
| Place of death | Montreal |