Bud Spangler

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Bud Spangler 1983

Robert "Bud" Spangler (* 7. December 1938 in Norwalk , Ohio ; † 16th January 2014 ) was an American jazz - drummer , radio presenter and music producer .

Bud Spangler moved from Ohio to Lansing in the late 1950s to study at Michigan State University . During his studies he played with Benny Poole and worked as a radio DJ for the university station WKAR-FM. In the early 1970s he worked in the Detroit jazz scene as a musician and producer for the Strata Records label , a. a. with Kenn Cox 's Contemporary Jazz Quintet (CJQ), with which he also made recordings for Blue Note Records , also with Lyman Woodard and in the mid-1980s with Jessica Williams and the Detroit musicians' association Tribe , and others. a. with Phil Ranelin and Marcus Belgrave . In the 1990s he lived in Northern California, led a quartet with Tom Peron in the Bay Aera and was active as a radio host for the San Mateo station KCSM-FM, where he hosted the Sunday Night Suites program for 25 years . As a producer he worked in California a. a. with Taylor Eigsti , Mark Levine , Shirley Horn , Ed Reed and Cedar Walton . In the field of jazz he was involved in 28 recording sessions between 1979 and 2011. Spangler died of lung cancer on January 16, 2014 .

Discographic notes

  • Tom Peron / Bud Spangler Quartet: Interplay (Monarch, 1994)
  • Tom Peron / Bud Spangler Quartet: Dedication (Monarch, 1995)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary at 180 proof
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 2, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Spangler, Bud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spangler, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwalk , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2014