Bobby Tucker

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Bobby Tucker with Billie Holiday (1948)

Robert Nathaniel "Bobby" Tucker (born January 8, 1923 in Morristown (New Jersey) , † April 12, 2008 ibid) was an American jazz pianist .

Tucker began performing as a jazz musician at the age of 14 and studied at the Juilliard School and the New York Institute of Music and Arts . First he played with the Barons of Rhythm . After three years of military service, he was a member of Tony Scott's and Mildred Bailey's band in 1946 . He became known as the pianist and musical director of the Billie Holiday trio , where he worked from 1946 to 1949. He accompanied her in 1947 at her Jazz at the Philharmonic performance in New York's Carnegie Hall and recorded “ I Loves You, Porgy ” with her trio ( John Levy and Denzil Best ) in 1948, for example . In 1949 he moved to Billy Eckstine , with whom he v. a. worked together during the 1950s and with whom he was on friendly terms until his death. Among other things, he worked on his roulette album No Cover, No Minimum in 1960 . During this time he also played with Lucky Thompson , Stuff Smith , Sonny Criss , Babs Gonzales and the Wardell Gray / Dexter Gordon All-Stars. He then worked with Johnny Hartman , Lena Horne and Antônio Carlos Jobim . He toured with Tony Bennett in the mid-1990s . He also recorded with Kenny Clarke , Paul Quinichette , Les Thompson, and in 1993 with Joe Wilder . With his own trio he recorded the album Too Tough in 1960 , his only album as a band leader.

literature

  • Julia Blackburn: Billie Holiday . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-0663-5 , pp. 199-213.
  • Donald Clarke: Billie Holiday - Wishing on the Moon. A biography. Piper, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-492-03756-9 .
  • Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, etc. 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8 .

Web links

Commons : Bobby Tucker  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Happy Birthday Bobby Tucker , jazzmuseuminharlem.org, January 8, 2013, accessed July 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Tucker, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tucker, Robert Nathaniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Morristown, New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2008
Place of death Morristown, New Jersey