Herbie Spaniard
Herbert Anthony Charles "Herbie" Spanier (born December 25, 1928 in Cupar (Saskatchewan) with Regina ; † December 13, 2001 in Toronto ) was a Canadian modern jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , piano , composition ), who played with his bobot was one of the pioneers of bebop in Canada.
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Spanier began playing the harmonica and guitar when he was five. At the age of 13 he switched to the flugelhorn; he played first with the local sea cadets, then in the high school band and Paul Perry's dance band. At the age of 19 he founded his own Boptet , with which he emulated Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie .
After working in Chicago in 1949/50, he moved to Toronto, where he played with Bill Goddard, Norm Amadio and Jack Long and in the big bands of Trump Davidson, Benny Winestone and Benny Louis. In 1953 he performed in Montreal Paul Bley and the Montreal Jazz Workshop ; this resulted in a long-term cooperation with Bley. After playing in the jazz clubs of New York in 1954 with Roy Eldridge , Cannonball and Nat Adderley , Jackie McLean and Lee Konitz and touring with Claude Thornhill and Hal McIntyre the following year , he settled in Montreal in 1955, where he stayed until 1970 and continued on Has been involved in dozens of albums and movie soundtracks. In 1972 he returned to Toronto, where he worked with Phil Nimmons and participated in his Juno Award winning album Atlantic Suite (1976). For the next 25 years he led his own bands, with whom he performed in Toronto clubs such as George's Spaghetti House . He made his own recordings on Justin Time and can also be heard on recordings by Reg Schwager and Michel Lambert .
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| SURNAME | Spaniard, Herbie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spaniard, Herbert Anthony Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian jazz musician (flugelhorn) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cupar, Saskatchewan near Regina, Saskatchewan |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 2001 |
| Place of death | Toronto |