Kent Brinkley
Kent Leon Brinkley (born September 24, 1949 - February 6, 2000 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz musician ( double bass ).
Brinkley worked as a musician in the late 1960s and 70s a. a. Charles Tyler ( Eastern Man Alone ), Rudolph Johnson ( The Second Coming ), Monk Montgomery ( Bass Odyssey , 1971). From 1973 he played with Freddie Hubbard , with whom he made a guest appearance in the same year at the Funkhaus Hamburg at the NDR jazz workshop . In Hubbard's band with George Cables , Ralph Penland and Junior Cook, he worked on his albums Keep Your Soul Together ( CTI ) and High Energy (Columbia, 1974). He also played albums with Bobby Hutcherson ( Inner Glow , 1975) and the blues musician Arthur Adams ( Home Brew ) a. In the field of jazz he was involved in eight recording sessions from 1967 to 1979, most recently with René van Helsdingen and the Superlights Quintet . In later years he led his own formation, which also included the vibraphonist Donald Moors, but made no further recordings.
Web links
- Kent Brinkley at Discogs (English)
- Kent Brinkley at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information at Jazz Station
- ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz Discography online, accessed April 21, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brinkley, Kent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brinkley, Kent Leon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (double bass) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1949 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2000 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |