John Bucher

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John Bucher (born 1930 in Brooklyn ; † April 5, 2020 in Mountainside , New Jersey ) was an American jazz musician ( cornet , trumpet ).

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Bucher, who was born in Brooklyn, spent his early childhood in Sunnyside, Queens , before his family moved to Pelham ( New York ), moved, where he attended high school. He graduated from Amherst College (graduating in 1952) and served in the US Army intelligence service during the Korean War . After Bucher had already played the trumpet in high school, he switched to cornet in Amherst and studied Dixieland and swing music by himself . Together with his band The Delta 5 , he played in the Fraternities and Sororities fraternity houses across New England. As early as 1951 he presented the single "Basin Street Blues" / "Shine" with the original Delta Five. After military service, he worked briefly as a writer for Time Inc. before becoming a stockbroker in the early 1960s and spending the rest of his career on Wall Street .

Bucher was also active in the traditional New York jazz scene: his specialty was the Chicago style , music of the 1920s and swing music of the 1930s and 1940s. His game has often been compared to that of Bix Beiderbecke . In addition to his own band, The Speakeasy Jazz Babies , Bucher played regularly with the Red Onion Jazz Band (first recordings in 1967), Woody Allen's New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra and the Williams Reunion Band, among others . For five decades he played weekly gigs at Michael's Pub, The Red Blazer Too, and The Cajun. In a 1970 review of the Red Onions, New York Times music critic John S. Wilson named John Bucher "one of the best jazz cornetists playing today - professionally or otherwise." Bucher also appeared on the soundtrack to Woody Allen's 1973 film The Sleeper .

In the field of jazz he was involved in 17 recording sessions between 1967 and 2007, according to Tom Lord , in addition to the Red Onion Jazz Band with the New Orleans High Society Funeral and Marching Band ("Bugle Boy March", inter alia with Woody Allen ), Dick Wellstood and The Friends of Fats / Jane Harvey ( Fats Waller Revisited (You Fats ... Me Jane) , 1975), Clyde Bernhardt and The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, Betty Comora and Friends and most recently in 2007 with The Jazz Hot Ensemble . He can also be heard on albums by Dave Van Ronk .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b John Bucher Obituary. Legacy, April 12, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Obituary. Syncopated Times, April 7, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 12, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Bucher, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (cornet, trumpet)
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2020
Place of death Mountainside New Jersey