Chuck Connors (musician)

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Charles Raymond "Chuck" Connors (born August 18, 1930 in Maysville (Kentucky) ; † December 11, 1994 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz musician ( bass trombone , trombone ) who was a long-time member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra .

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Connors did his military service from 1949, initially in the US Navy School of Music in Washington, DC. From 1952 he studied at the Boston Conservatory (Bachelor 1956). The first recordings were made in 1957 with Dizzy Gillespie and His US State Department Jazz Orchestra . From 1961 he worked in Duke Ellington's orchestra, heard on albums such as The Girl's Suite and The Perfume Suite (1961), The Symphonic Ellington , The Great Paris Concert (1963), Ella at Duke's Place (1965, with Ella Fitzgerald ), Far East Suite (1966), ... And His Mother Called Him Bill (1967) and Togo Brava Suite (1972), also in the three versions of the Sacred Concerts . After Connors' entry into the band, Ellington first orchestrated with a bass trombonist; as a rare soloist he appeared in "I Love to Laugh" (on the album Mary Poppins , Reprise 1964) and in "Perdido" on the album The Popular Duke Ellington (RCA 1966).

Connors also recorded with Johnny Hodges (1961), Cat Anderson / Claude Bolling (1965), Ella Fitzgerald / Jimmy Jones (1966), Ray Nance and in 1969 with Paul Gonsalves With the Swingers & the Four Bones . After Ellington's death he played in the Clark Terry Big Band, but remained connected to the Duke Ellington Orchestra when Mercer Ellington continued it as the " Ghost Band ". In the field of jazz he was involved in 272 recording sessions between 1957 and 1991, most recently with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra ( Portraits By Ellington ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter van de Leur: Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn . 2002, p. 171 ISBN 978-0-19-512448-4
  2. ↑ The Four Bones were actually six trombonists, namely François Guin , Claude Gousset , Michel Camicas , Luis Fuentes , Daniel Brule and Chuck Connors
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 22, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Connors, Chuck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Connors, Charles Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (bass trombone, trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Maysville, Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1994
Place of death los Angeles