Gail Brockman
Gail Brockman (* around 1910 in Cheraw , South Carolina ) was an American jazz trumpeter .
Live and act
Brockman was from Cheraw, the hometown of Dizzy Gillespie . He played from 1940 in the band of Horace Henderson in Chicago; from mid-1944 he was a member of Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra ; he was part of Eckstine's big band until mid-1945. In the late 1940s he played in Chicago a. a. with Gene Ammons , Tom Archia and Eugene Wright . In the early 1950s he was still on recordings for Bill Russo ( A Recital in New American Music 1951), Donna Hightower , Eddie Johnson , Floyd Smithand Horace Henderson with; No further recordings are available from later years. In the field of jazz he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 1940 and 1954, also with Blind Blake , Little Richard . King Pleasure sang a vocal version based on Brockman's solo in Gene Ammons' "Red Top" in 1954 .
Web links
- Gail Brockman at Allmusic (English)
- Gail Brockman at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mentioned by Dizzy Gillespie in his autobiography To Be, Or Not - to Bop , p. 196.
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 11, 2015)
- ^ William R. Bauer: Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter , p. 59.
- ↑ Mike Moyce: Who's overrated? Who's Underrated? ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in JazzTimes 1997
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| SURNAME | Brockman, Gail |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cheraw, South Carolina |