Jerry Tilitz

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Gerald "Jerry" Tilitz (born November 30, 1945 in New York City ) is an American trombonist and singer of modern jazz . He has lived in Hamburg since 1986.

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Tilitz studied in New York with Lennie Tristano and Curtis Fuller . He first played in the Jazz Mobile Big Band of Billy Taylor and was next to a lecturer for jazz theory at the Queensboro College in his hometown and later as professor of trombone at the Conservatory of Rotterdam. During this phase he worked as a sideman on recordings and appearances for Gerry Mulligan , Roy Eldridge , Chet Baker , Tommy Flanagan , Warren Vaché , Barry Harris , Randy Brecker and Hank Jones . He also led his own sextet, which included musicians such as Billy Hart , Arnie Lawrence, Jim McNeely , Bob Moses , Tom Harrell , Valery Ponomarev , Gary Smulyan , Armen Donelian and Harold Danko (documented as an album under the title The New York Tapes ). He later went on tour with his own group Trombone Tangents as well as with Frank Wunsch , Horace Parlan , Herb Geller , Danny Moss and Jimmi Pedersen . He currently plays with his quartet, the Raging Bones and the Hamburg all-star band Swing Composer's Orchestra, which he leads .

On the Jazz Welle Plus Tilitz presented the radio show An American in Hamburg every week . He is also an author of the Jazz Journal and other professional journals.

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SURNAME Tilitz, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tilitz, Gerald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City