Cecil Bridgewater
Cecil Vernon Bridgewater (born October 10, 1942 in Urbana (Illinois) ) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer and music teacher .
Live and act
Cecil Bridgewater's grandfather and father also played the trumpet ; He had his first professional job in his uncle's band. He studied between 1960 and 1964 and after his military service in 1968/69 at the University of Illinois , with whose band he toured Western Europe in 1968 and Russia in 1969 . With his brother, the saxophonist Ron Bridgewater , he founded the Bridgewater Bros. Band , which existed until 1989. In 1970 he played with Horace Silver and then went on tour with the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra . He also worked with Dizzy Gillespie , Art Blakey1972, Max Roach , Randy Weston , Charles McPherson , Joe Henderson 1975, Roy Brooks , Abdullah Ibrahim and Sam Rivers . Later he was touring with George Gruntz's Concert Band and took part in recordings by McCoy Tyner , Frank Wess , Heiner Stadler , Jack McDuff , Richard Davis , Billy Harper , Dee Dee Bridgewater , Antonio Hart , Groove Holmes and John Stubblefield .
Bridgewater has received commissions from orchestras such as the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and Meet The Composers , but has also written compositions and arrangements for Lena Horne , Vanessa Rubin and Dee Dee Bridgewater (with whom he was married since 1970). He worked for Jazzmobile for many years as a music teacher and taught trumpet, improvisation, arrangement and big band playing. He also taught at the New School and the Manhattan School of Music .
Selection discography
- Mean What You Say - Brownstone Recordings 1998
- I Love Your Smile - Mesa Records - 1993
- Generations Suite - Denon Records - 1979
- Lightning and Thunder - Denon Records - 1978
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Web links
- Web presence
- Cecil Bridgewater at Discogs (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bridgewater, Cecil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bridgewater, Cecil Vernon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Urbana (Illinois) |