Don Ferrara

Don Ferrara (born March 10, 1928 in Brooklyn , † January 18, 2011 ) was an American jazz trumpeter .

Live and act

Ferrara started playing the trumpet when she was ten. His musician career began in the big band of Jerry Wald , he then worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Woody Herman before he did his military service. There he played in an army band and met Red Mitchell . He then worked with Warne Marsh and Lennie Tristano (1947), with whom he also had lessons. He then began to teach himself, played with Georgie Auld and in Gene Roland's rehearsal tape with Charlie Parker (1950). From the early 1950s he took part in the recordings of Chubby Jackson / Zoot Sims ( Sax Appeal ), Lester Young , Gerry Mulligan and Urbie Green . In 1955 he became a member of Lee Konitz's band with Sal Mosca , to whose repertoire he also contributed compositions. 1960–63 he played in the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band , a. a. to be heard as a soloist in Johnny Mandel's Barbara's Theme . In the 1970s he worked again with Lee Konitz. Most recently he lived near San Diego , California .

Gordon Jack noted in his book Fifties jazz talk: an oral retrospective that Ferrara, despite his legendary reputation - Tristano said of him that he had "absolutely everything" - received too little attention in the course of his career.

Discographic notes

• Chubby Jackson All Star Big Band (1950)
• Lester Young - Live at Birdland 1953 & 1956 ( ESP-Disk )
• Urbie Green And His Orchestra - The Persuasive Trombone Of Urbie Green (Command, 1960)
• Gerry Mulligan and The Concert Jazz Band - At the Village Vanguard (1960)
• The Concert Jazz Band - Gerry Mulligan '63
• Lee Konitz - The Real Lee Konitz (1971)

Web links

• Don Ferrara at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary
2. ^ Prestige Discography
3. ↑ ^{a b} Gordon Jack: Fifties jazz talk: an oral retrospective
4. ↑ Note from Warne Marsh Info