John Buckingham (musician)
John Buckingham (* around 1940; † 2017 ) was an American tuba player who excelled in both jazz and classical music .
Buckingham was a member of the Symphony of the New World, founded by Kermit Moore, in the mid-1960s, and toured Africa with a State Department- sponsored orchestra. Around 1970, he worked in the band lobby of Carla Bley ( Escalator over the Hill ) and 1985-88 in Bill Dixon Quartet with Mario Pavone and Laurence Cook to listen to the Soul Note -albums Thoughts and Sons of Sysyphus . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 20 recording sessions between 1968 and 1988.
In Broadway - Musical Fourtune Buckingham joined in 1980 as a member of a New Orleans jazz to band, which also Lars Edegran (piano), Kenny Davern , Dick Vance and Clay Burt belonged (dr). In 1982 he starred on Broadway with Dick Vance, Eddie Barefield , Lillette Harris Jenkins (piano) and Clay Burt as Rollicking New Orleans Blue Serenaders in the music revue One Mo 'Time! .
Web links
- John Buckingham at Allmusic (English)
- John Buckingham at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death report to the New York Musicians' Union Local 802
- ↑ Ebony , November 1966, p. 39 ff.
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 9, 2017)
- ^ New York Magazine, Aug. 4, 1980, p. 13
- ↑ Ebony, November 1982, p. 70.
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SURNAME | Buckingham, John |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1940 |
DATE OF DEATH | before December 2017 |