Bob Stoloff

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Bob Stoloff (born August 20, 1952 in New York ) is an American jazz musician ( vocals , initially drums , composition).

Bob Stolof (in Spain)

Live and act

Stoloff, who first grew up in Port Washington , played numerous instruments as a teenager and graduated from the High School of Music & Art in New York from 1967 to 1969 , then worked as a musician. He studied drums at Berklee College of Music between 1974 and 1976 , but also began to sing during this time. In the next few years he worked as a studio musician and as a drummer was the accompanist on numerous albums. In 1983 he was called to Berklee College, where he taught scat singing . In 1984 he was touring Europe with the Vocal Summit (to which Urszula Dudziak , Jay Clayton , Jeanne Lee and partly Bobby McFerrin belonged). He has also performed with Joey Blake and Bobby McFerrin.

He presented several textbooks on jazz singing and continued to teach as an associate professor at Berklee College, where he became assistant director of the Voice Department. He also directed vocal training at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador . He can be heard on recordings with the Jazz Harp Trio and the Boston group The Ritz .

Fonts

  • Scat! Vocal Improvisation Techniques (Gerard / Sarzin; with CD)
  • Blues Scatitudes (Gerard / Sarzin)
  • Body Beats (Advance Music)
  • Vocal Improvisation: An Instru-Vocal Approach for Soloists, Groups, and Choirs (Hal Leonard / Berklee Press)
  • Rhythmania! (incl. CD)
  • Recipes for Soloing over Jazz Standards Vol. 1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ U. a. Recordings from Danish television, http://aldezabal.blogspot.de/2015/12/vocal-summit-live-at-danish-tv-1984.html
personal data
SURNAME Stoloff, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , United States