Bobby Naughton

Bobby Naughton (born June 25, 1944 ) is an American jazz musician ( vibraphone , composition ).

Live and act

Naughton, who is a self-taught musician , first played rock music as a pianist before turning to jazz in the late 1960s and soon afterwards to the vibraphone. In avant-garde jazz , he first played with musicians such as Perry Robinson , Sheila Jordan and Anthony Braxton . He has been making records under his own name since 1969. He worked with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra in 1972. His album Understanding (1973) was released on JAPO Records . Since the mid-1970s he has been working with Wadada Leo Smith , with whose Creative Orchestra he performed at the Moers Festival in 1979 ( Budding of a Rose ) as well as with his New Delta Ahkri in Italy. In 1981 he toured in a quartet with Smith, Peter Kowald and Günter Sommer . In the same year he played the album The Sky Cries the Blues with the Creative Improvisers Orchestra .

Discographic notes

• Bobby Naughton / Leo Smith / Perry Robinson: The Haunt ( NoBusiness Records , 2018)

Web links and source

• Internet presence with discography
• Roger T. Dean , The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
• Bobby Naughton at Allmusic (English)