Lloyd Michaels

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Lloyd Michaels (also Lloyd Michels ; * around 1943 as Lloyd Michael Bergman ; † mid- January 2014 ) was an American swing and jazz trumpeter (also piccolo trumpet , flugelhorn , soprano flute ).

Live and act

Michaels, who suffered from asthma as a toddler , was prescribed to play the trumpet by his doctor to strengthen his lungs. He took lessons from John Fabrizio, William Vacchiano, trumpeter with the New York Philharmonic , and Roy Stevens. At the age of 19 he worked on Si Zentner's hit single Up a Lazy River . In 1965 he became (as the successor to Bill Chase ) a member of Woody Herman and His Orchestra , in which he was also road manager . On his return to New York he played with Clark Terry , who then recommended him to Thad Jones . Michaels worked on Quincy Jones ' album Walking in Space (1969) and was sporadically employed in the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the following years . As lead trumpeter he played in the Broadway show Sophisticated Ladies and in other Broadway productions such as Jesus Christ Superstar as well as in the off-Broadway production Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road at the Beacon Theater; he also worked as a contractor and musician for the bands Hines, Hines and the Westbury Music Fair Orchestra .

In 1974 Michaels founded the brass septet Mistura ; with the funk title The Flasher (1976) the band was particularly successful in England; the instrumental number hit # 23 on the UK charts, where it stayed for ten weeks. In 1975 he worked for the Big Band Machine of Buddy Rich . Michaels, who died in mid-January 2014 at the age of 70, was also involved in recordings by Paul Butterfield , Phyllis Hyman , Lee Konitz , Michael Mantler / Jazz Composer's Orchestra ( Communications , ECM / WATT 1968), Ernie Wilkins ( Hard Mother Blues ) and Charles Mingus ( Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert , 1972), involved in a total of 19 recording sessions in the field of jazz between 1967 and 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary for Local 802
  2. ↑ When he recorded with Woody Herman in 1967, the trumpeter was first listed as Lloyd Michaels .
  3. ↑ Lloyd Michaels at Discogs (English)
  4. ^ British Hit Singles & Albums, Guinness, 2005
  5. ↑ Lloyd Michels at Allmusic (English)
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 12, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Michaels, Lloyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michels, Lloyd; Bergman, Lloyd Michael (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American swing and jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1943
DATE OF DEATH January 2014