Bobby Bryant
Bobby Bryant (* 19th May 1934 in Hattiesburg , Mississippi ; † June 1998 ) was an American jazz - trumpet and flugelhorn player .
Live and act
Bobby Bryant initially played both trumpet and tenor saxophone. In 1952 he moved to Chicago, where he attended the Cosmopolitan School of Music . After his graduation in 1957 he worked as a freelance musician in the city, u. a. with Red Saunders and in the accompaniment group of the singer Billy Williams; he also performed with smaller ensembles. In 1960 he went to New York, the following year to Los Angeles, where he has lived ever since. Bryant worked there a. a. with Vic Damone , had his own formations and played in big bands by Charles Mingus ( Mingus at Monterey , 1964), Thelonious Monk ( Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival ), Oliver Nelson ( Monk's Blues , 1969), Gerald Wilson , the Frank Capp / Nat Pierce Juggernaut, and the Clayton - Hamilton Jazz Orchestra . He also worked in the studios and as a music teacher. He has also worked on recordings by Eddie Lockjaw Davis ( Trane Whistle , 1960), Johnny Griffin ( The Big Soul Band , 1960), Blue Mitchell ( Bantu Village , 1969), Eddie Harris ( How Can You Live Like That?, 1976) , Zoot Sims ( Passion Flower , 1980), Gene Harris ( Tribute to Count Basie , 1987) and Ella Fitzgerald , Jimmy Witherspoon and Horace Silver .
Health problems in the 1990s forced him to only be active as a part-time musician. Bryant recorded several albums under his own name with small and big band formations, in 1961 for Vee-Jay Records , twice for Pacific Jazz Records in 1969, a session for Cadet Records (1971) and sextet recordings in 1967, which were also made for Cadet. In his big band from 1969, musicians such as Buddy Childers , Pete Christlieb , Streamline Ewing , Joe Sample and Ernie Watts played .
Discographic notes
- Big Band Blues (VeeJay, 1961)
- Ain't Doing too BAD, Bad (Argo / Cadet, 1967)
- Earth dance (Pacific Jazz, 1969)
- The Jazz Excursion into Hair (Pacific Jazz, 1969)
- Swahili Strut (Cadet, 1971)
Web links
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- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bryant, Bobby |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bryant, Bob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hattiesburg , Mississippi |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1998 |