George Bohanon

George Roland Bohanon (* 7. August 1937 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American jazz - trombone .

Live and act

Bohanon began playing the trombone at the age of eight. He studied at Wayne State University and the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts before embarking on his music career. Bohanon worked there in the late 1950s with the vocal ensemble The Premieres , as well as with Yusef Lateef , Barry Harris and Ernie Wilkins . He became known in the band of the drummer Chico Hamilton , when he recorded albums with Charles Lloyd and Gábor Szabó for the jazz label Impulse! Records ( The Dealer ). He then worked for seven years as the first trombonist of the Motown Studio Orchestra and accompanied artists such as Diana Ross , Marvin Gaye , Smokey Robinson , Stevie Wonder and others on recordings. In 1968 Bohanon moved to Los Angeles and worked there mainly as a studio musician, for example with Quincy Jones and Frank Sinatra and on television shows. In the 1970s he worked with Donald Byrd , Joe Henderson , Carmen McRae , Sonny Rollins and Stanley Turrentine, among others .

Around 1980 he played in the Creative Arts Ensemble , the Lionel Hampton Band and the Capp / Pierce Orchestra ; In 1984 he toured Japan with Benny Carter and in 1987 toured with Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces . In 1990 and 1991 he toured with the Phillip Morris Superband under Gene Harris . He also played with Jimmy Smith , Miles Davis ( Dingo , 1991) and the Clayton - Hamilton Jazz Orchestra . In 1997 he was a member of Gerald Wilson's big band and in 1999 the big bands of Milt Jackson ( Explosive! ) And Joey DeFrancesco ( Singin 'and Swingin' ). In 1995 he founded the formation BoneSoir with friends Maurice Spears , Garnett Brown and Thurman Green .

He is also an assistant professor at the UCLA Herb Albert School of Jazz and works for the American Federation of Musicians , as well as a writer, arranger and producer. Bohanon names JJ Johnson , Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane as musical role models .

Bohanon was named Most Valuable Player by the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences in 1980 .

Discographic notes

Bold Bohanon (1963)
Blue Phase (Geobo GB; 1990)

Lexical references

Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Jürgen Wölfer, Lexikon des Jazz Wien 1999 ISBN 3-85445-164-4 (2nd edition)

Web links

Web presence
George Bohanon at Allmusic (English)
Bohanon's page at UCLA ( February 17, 2003 memento on the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Occasionally his name was misspelled in various publications. In the discography of the Miles Davis album Dingo, he is listed as George Bohanan, in other places George Bohannon .

personal data
SURNAME	Bohanon, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bohanon, George Roland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 7, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Detroit , Michigan

[1] Occasionally his name was misspelled in various publications. In the discography of the Miles Davis album Dingo, he is listed as George Bohanan, in other places George Bohannon .