Fortunatus Fip Ricard

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Fortunatus "Fip" Ricard (also "Flip" Ricard, actually Fortunatase Paul Ricard , born April 4, 1923 in Chicago , † April 26, 1996 in Inglewood ) was an American jazz trumpeter .

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Ricard attended Doolittle Elementary School and Wendell Phillips High School ; he then studied human sciences at Roosevelt University . At the beginning of his career he played with Andy Kirk and His Orchestra, with which the first recordings were made for Decca in New York at the end of 1946 ("Now You Tell Me", with Joe Williams ). He worked in Chicago in the late 1940s a. a. with rhythm & blues and jazz musicians such as Buster Bennett and His Band, to which Wild Bill Davis and Israel Crosby also belonged, from 1949 in the Red Saunders Orchestra . In the 1950s he worked a. a. on recordings of Edward "Gates" White , Red Saunders, Joe Williams ("Hey! Bartender, Give That Man a Drink") and Mabel Scott ; Also with Porter Kilbert , Dinah Washington , Eddie Chamblee , James Moody ( Last Train from Overbrook ), Illinois Jacquet ( Illinois Jacquet Flies Again , 1959) and Big Joe Turner later in the decade . In the early 1960s he played in his hometown with the Junie C. Cobb and His New Hometown Band and in the orchestra of Bobby Bryant .

From 1962 to 1964 Ricard was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra (in which he replaced Snooky Young ), heard on the Verve albums On My Way & Shoutin '' Again and Li'l Ol 'Groovemaker ... Basie! . Ricard was also involved in Basie's recordings with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald and performed with the orchestra at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1962 and 1964 . In the field of jazz, Tom Lord lists him in 51 recording sessions between 1946 and 1965. In his later years he was employed in the backing band of the singer and entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. for 23 years and also acted as the orchestra director. He died at the age of 72 from complications from a heart attack in Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood near Los Angeles.

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  1. ↑ a b c Obituary. Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1996, accessed December 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 2, 2017)
  3. ↑ Chris Sheridan: Count Basie Bio-Discography . [Series 'Discographies', Number 22] New York ao, Greenwood Press, 1986.
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SURNAME Ricard, Fortunatus Fip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ricard, Fortunatus; Ricard, Fip (nickname); Ricard, Fortunatase Paul (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1996
Place of death Inglewood