Lester Robertson

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Lester "Lately" Robertson (* around 1925, † 1992 ) was an American jazz trombonist and arranger who was mainly active in the music scene in Los Angeles .

Live and act

Robertson played in the big band of music teacher Alma Hightower in the 1940s . In the following two decades he worked as a musician and arranger a. a. in the big bands and ensembles of Clarence Daniels ( Do the Deal ), Maxwell Davis , Jimmy Giuffre , Teddy Edwards , Lionel Hampton , Gerald Wilson , Clark Terry and Gil Fuller . Together with Eric Dolphy , he led a big band interested in expanding the bebop harmonies. He also played with Dolphy and Billy Higgins in the house band of the Oasis Club . With the pianist Linda Hill and the band leader Horace Tapscott he founded the underground musicians association (UGMA) in 1961 , which was later renamed the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension (UGMAA).

In the 1970s and 1980s Robertson was a member of Roy Porter's big band Sound Machine and Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra , for which he also composed. In the field of jazz he was involved in 43 recording sessions between 1950 and 1984, as well as recordings by Johnny Hartman , Al Hibbler , Joe Pass , Nancy Wilson and the pop band The Monkees .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steven L. Isoardi: The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles London: University of California Press 2006, p. 207
  2. ↑ She was an aunt of the musician Alton Redd and great-aunt of the singer Vi Redd ; see. Steven L. Isoardi: The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles , p. 23
  3. ↑ Steven L. Isoardi: The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles , p.35
  4. ↑ Coda Magazine 1992 - Issues 241-246 - page 7
  5. ↑ Steven L. Isoardi: The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles , pp 128, 279
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 29, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Robertson, Lester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lately (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trombonist and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH around 1925
DATE OF DEATH 1992