Earle Spencer

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Robert Earle Spencer (* 1926 in Welborn (Kansas) ) was an American jazz musician ( trombone , arrangement , composition ) of the late swing era.

Live and act

Spencer studied trombone at Northeast High School in Kansas City. He formed his first band in Los Angeles when he was 14 and had other bands as a teenager in which he also sang. In 1944 he was called up for military service; He spent 15 months in the hospital. In 1946, after his discharge from the US Navy, he founded his own orchestra. Spencer then recorded a number of titles such as "Spenceria" and "Gangbusters" in Hollywood from August to October 1946 for the Black & White label and hired some musicians who worked in well-known orchestras. Among them were Skeets Herfurt , Morty Corb , Arvin Garrison , Barney Kessel , Irving Ashby ,Tony Rizzi , Gene Sargent , Artie Shapiro , Al Killian , Ray Linn , Red Callender and Milt Raskin . Another recording session the next year included Jimmy Knepper , Herb Geller , Buddy Childers , Art Pepper and Laurindo Almeida . The arrangements that closely follow the progressive jazz of Stan Kenton were ajar, often came from his musicians.

During its relatively short existence, his orchestra recorded around 30 titles, including three extended two-part performances such as "ES Boogie". Spencer has toured the Southwest and Midwest of the United States with his orchestra. When big bands were challenged economically due to changing musical tastes and cultural changes, Spencer managed to keep his band together until 1948. In 1949 he founded another band, which he had to give up in the same year. In 1950, another large-format band made recordings under his name, which probably only came together for the studio appointments.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jordi Pujol: Earle Spencer and His New Band: Sensation of 1946. Jazzprofiles, July 17, 2020, accessed on August 5, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ A b c Marc Myers: Earle Spencer: Early Progressive. Jazzwax, August 4, 2020, accessed on August 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Spencer, Earle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spencer, Robert Earle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trombone, arrangement)
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Welborn (Kansas)