Gary Barone
Gary Barone (born December 12, 1941 in Detroit - † December 24, 2019 ) was an American jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , drums ) and big band leader who lived in Freiburg im Breisgau .
Live and act
Barone, son of a swing trumpeter and brother of trombonist and band leader Mike Barone , began playing the trumpet at the age of six. At the age of 14 he was already a professional musician. He graduated from Michigan State University and San Fernando State College. Then he moved to California, where he played with Stan Kenton from 1965 ; he also recorded with its Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra . Then he worked as a studio musician (among others with Henry Mancini , Lalo Schifrin , Dave Grusin , Michel Legrand , Sérgio Mendes , Canned Heat ), but was also withShelly Manne , Bud Shank , Gerald Wilson , Maynard Ferguson , Willie Bobo , Robby Krieger or Frank Zappa ( Petit Wazoo ) are active. In 1986 he moved to Portland (Oregon) , where he founded his own band and went on two European tours with David Friesen and recorded several albums. In 1995 he came to the Freiburg Jazz & Rock Schools as Artist in Residence . In Germany he appeared with Jiggs Whigham , Waldi Heidepriem , Christof Lauer , Tony Lakatos and Albert Mangelsdorff . In Freiburg he led the Jazz House Big Band and his own quartet. He also taught jazz trumpet at the private university for art, design and popular music in Freiburg .
Works
Fonts
- Modern Studies, for Trumpet and other G-clef reading instruments
- Modern Jazz Duets (2 volumes)
Discographic notes
- Mike & Gary Barone Blues & Other Happy Moments (1979; with Tom Scott , Theo Saunders, Dick Spencer, John Heard , Shelly Manne, Alex Acuña )
- Gary Barone / David Friesen / Alan Jones Triune
- Gary Barone / Ro Kuipers Ta Ta Boom! (with percussionist Ro Kuijpers)
- Almost Floating (with Andy Herrmann, Karoline Höfler , Patrick Manzecchi )
Lexical entries
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
- Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .
Web links
- Web presence with selection discography
- Gary Barone at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Badische Zeitung of December 27, 2019: The jazz musician Gary Barone died at the age of 78 , accessed on December 27, 2019
- ↑ Interview (Petit Wazoo)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barons, Gary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 2019 |