Bob Szajner

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Robert Martin "Bob" Szajner (born September 12, 1938 ; † November 9, 2019 ) was an American jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Live and act

Szajner, who received first piano lessons from his mother, attended Chadsey High School and studied at the University of Michigan . He worked as a jazz pianist in Detroit, where he accompanied Donald Byrd , Charles McPherson , Lonnie Hillyer , Yusef Lateef , Pepper Adams and Frank Isola , only to not appear as a musician for several years. In October 1978 he recorded material for several albums with his own compositions in a trio session with Ray McKinney (bass) and Roy Brooks (drums), which were released under the titles Jazz Opus 20/40 , Sound Ideas and Afterthoughts on the Seeds & Stems label published; further tracks followed on the RMS label as The Outtakes of TRIAD and The Lost Outtakes of TRIAD . In 1980 he recorded the album Loose Ends with Ed Pickens and Frank Isola, music for the Detroit Black Journal soundtrack . He also performed with Pickens and Isola at the Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival in Hart Plaza, Detroit. In his later years, Szajner recorded as a soloist in multi-track technology as The Bob Szajner Digital Ensemble and released nine other albums, the most recent being Sounds of the South and West , which was created in 2015. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 31 recording sessions between 1978 and 2015, according to Tom Lord .

According to Alex Henderson ( Allmusic ), Szajner is "a personable hardbop / postbop player with an approach that is swinging yet introspective and lyrical."

Discographic notes

  • Live at the Detroit Montreux Jazz Fest 1981 (Cadence Jazz, ed. 2009), with Ed Pickens and Frank Isola

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robert Szajner obituary. Legacy.com, November 14, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 15, 2019)
  3. ↑ a b Review of the album Live at the Detroit Montreux Jazz Fest 1981 at Allmusic (English). Retrieved November 15, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Szajner, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szajner, Robert Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1938
DATE OF DEATH 9th November 2019