Frank Mantooth

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Frank Mantooth (* 11. April 1947 in Tulsa , Oklahoma ; † 30th January 2004 in Garden City , Kansas ) was an American jazz - arranger , pianist , composer and university teacher.

Live and act

Mantooth first learned to play the guitar before switching to piano during high school. Then he studied music at North Texas State University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1969. There he was a member of the jazz program of Ashley Alexander, who later recorded three albums with Mantooth with his arrangements. During his military service from 1969-73, Mantooth was arranger at the Air Force Academy Falconaires and then lived for a few years in Austria, where he continued his piano studies at the Vienna University of Music until 1977. During this time he worked with Richard Oesterreicher and Wayne Darling , who contributed to his debut album Our First (1977). In Vienna's Jazzland he accompanied top musicians from the local scene such as Teddy Ehrenreich , Fatty George , Bill Grah , Elly Wright , Hans Salomon , Paul Fields and international guest stars such as Leo Wright , Cleanhead Vinson , Peanuts Hucko , Bud Freeman , Buddy Tate , Art Farmer , Billy Butterfield , Sweets Edison , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Carrie Smith and Mickey Baker , with whom he also recorded an LP in 1975 (Up On the Hill on "Roots").

After returning to the United States, he wrote commissioned compositions for Doc Severinsen , the Kansas City Symphony and the Madison Symphony Orchestra . He also published the five-part textbook The Best Chord Changes for the World's Greatest Standards , which was published by Hal Leonard Corporation . He has also composed a number of works for big bands and jazz ensembles since the late 1970s . In 1987 he recorded some of his compositions with a big band. He received a total of eleven Grammy nominations for five of his albums, Suite Tooth, Persevere, Dangerous Precedent, Sophisticated Lady and A Miracle . When A Miracle also appeared Pete Christlieb , Kevin Mahogany , Diane Schuur , Pat LaBarbera and Bobby Shew with. Mantooth taught at DePaul University and was a guest conductor with the Texas All-State High School Jazz Ensemble in San Antonio, Texas . He last lived in Garden City, Kansas, where he died in 2004.

Awards

In 1999 Mantooth received the Florence Crittenton Foundation's Citizen of the Year Award ; that same year he received the Homer Osborne Award at the Wichita Jazz Festival for his performance in jazz education. In 2004 he was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame .

Publications

  • Best Chord Changes for the Most Requested Standards: 100 Of the Most Requested Standard Songs With Professionally Altered Chords . Hal Leonard Corporation 1990. ISBN 0881888532
  • The Best Chord Changes for the Most Requested Standards . Hal Leonard Corporation 1990. ISBN 0881888532
  • Voicings For Jazz Keyboard Hal Leonard Corporation 1997. ISBN 0793534852
  • Movin On to Blues E Flat Patterns for Improvisation . Hal Leonard Corporation 1997. ISBN 0793568609
  • Frank Mantooth; Lee Evans: Jazz Favorites B Instruments (Jazz Improvisation Workshop with CD: 15 All-Time Favorites from the Essential Jazz Repertoire) . Hal Leonard Corporation 1997. ISBN 0793571626
  • Jazz at Christmas . Hal Leonard Corporation 1999. ISBN 0634008587

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mantooth in the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame 2004
  2. ^ Obituary (2004) in the Los Angeles Times
personal data
SURNAME Mantooth, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz arranger, pianist, composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Tulsa , Oklahoma
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2004
Place of death Garden City (Kansas)