Bobby Rosengarden

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Robert Marshall "Bobby" Rosengarden (born April 23, 1924 in Elgin (Illinois) , † February 27, 2007 in Sarasota (Florida)) was an American jazz drummer and studio musician in various styles.

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Rosengarden comes from a family of musicians and from the age of five had private lessons in Chicago (partly together with Louie Bellson ) with Roy Knapp. After studying at the University of Michigan in 1942/43 , he did his military service in army bands until 1946. Then he worked in New York City with Charlie Spivak , Raymond Scott and Skitch Henderson to work as a studio musician from 1949. From 1949 to 1968 he was employed by NBC , then from 1969 to 1974 at ABC as the head of the band on the Dick Cavett Show . He has also appeared on the Steve Allen Show , the Ernie Kovacs Show , Sing Along With Mitch and Johnny Carson's Tonight Show . During recordings and live broadcasts, he was the partner of musicians of all genres, including Arturo Toscanini in the first phase . In the recording studios he accompanied artists as diverse as Duke Ellington , Billie Holiday , Benny Goodman / Igor Stravinsky ( Ebony Concerto ), Quincy Jones , Gil Evans / Miles Davis , Astrud Gilberto , Antônio Carlos Jobim , Stan Getz , Arlo Guthrie , Carmen McRae , Ben E. King , Harry Belafonte ("Banana Boat"), Barbra Streisand , Jimi Hendrix , Dave Brubeck and Tony Bennett .

Since 1965 he worked for Benny Goodman again and again. From 1973 to 1978 he played with The World's Greatest Jazz Band and from 1974 he belonged to the New York Jazz Repertory Company , with which he toured Europe in 1975. He also accompanied Bob Wilber's Soprano Summit . Since the mid-1970s, Rosengarden has played regularly at major festivals such as the Newport Jazz Festival , but also in Europe - with his own groups and in the bands of Peanuts Hucko , Gerry Mulligan , Kenny Davern and in trios with pianists Hank Jones and Dick Wellstood and bassist George Duvivier and Milt Hinton, respectively .

With percussionist Phil Kraus , with whom he worked in the 1950s and 1960s as a solid team in the studios and albums such as Playful and Pretty and Like ... Bongos had recorded, he published in 2000 the CD Just ... bongos with Recordings from this series.

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SURNAME Rosengarden, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosengarden, Robert Marshall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz drummer and studio musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Elgin (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2007
Place of death Sarasota