Bobby Bradford

Bobby Bradford (born July 19, 1934 in Cleveland , Mississippi ) is an American jazz trumpeter .

Bobby Bradford, Moers Festival 2008

Live and act

Bradford grew up in Dallas , starring in high school and college with Cedar Walton and David Newman . In 1953 he went to Los Angeles , where he first worked with Ornette Coleman and performed with Wardell Gray , Gerald Wilson and Eric Dolphy . After military service and studies (at Huston-Tillotson College , Bachelor of Music ) he worked in the Coleman Quartet between 1961 and 1963. He then went back to the west coast, where he formed a band with John Carter in 1965 . He recorded with Coleman in the 1970s and spent extended periods in Europe, working with John Stevens and Trevor Watts in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble . He then lived again in Los Angeles, where he played avant-garde jazz with his Mo'tet . He teaches at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California and at Pomona College in Claremont, California .

His daughter is the singer and university professor Carmen Bradford (* 1960).

Love's Dream (Emanem, 1973) with Trevor Watts, Kent Carter and John Stevens
Purple Gums (Asian improvs, 2002) with Francis Wong , William Roper
Bobby Bradford / Hafez Modirzadeh / Mark Dresser / Alex Cline : Live at the Open Gate ( NoBusiness Records , 2016)
Bobby Bradford & Hafez Modirzadeh with Ken Filiano & Royal Hartigan : Live at the Magic Triangle (No Business, 2017)

Steven L. Isoardi (2006). The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles . George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24591-1
John Litweiler (1990). The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958 . New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80377-1