Oscar Brashear
Oscar Brashear (born August 18, 1944 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American jazz trumpeter of post bop and hard bop .
Oscar Brashear began to learn piano at the age of seven and trumpet at eleven, attended Wright College and then Roosevelt University, after which he had engagements in the bands of Woody Herman and Count Basie (1968). He initially worked as a freelancer in the Chicago area and moved to Los Angeles in 1970, where he lived and worked for three decades; Since the beginning of the 1970s he was often employed as a studio musician , accompanied in jazz bands and completed the line-up in recording sessions of the Lalo Schifrin / Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, the Benny Golson / Curtis Fuller Sextet (1980) and Quincy Jones / Sammy Nestico , Bobby Hutcherson , Hampton Hawes , Joe Henderson , Milt Jackson , JJ Johnson , Horace Silver (1975 and in the 1990s), Zoot Sims , Jimmy Smith , the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Harold Land (repeatedly since the 1970s), the Clayton - Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and Billy Childs , with whom he played duets. In 1996 he worked in the horn section on the production of the Herbie Hancock album The New Standard . He also accompanied the singers Carmen McRae , Diane Schuur and Flora Purim .
The trumpeter who has been active since the 1970s may be so underestimated and overlooked because he lived and worked in Los Angeles on the west coast for a long time and does not record under his own name. His clear style is influenced by Lee Morgan , Woody Shaw and Freddie Hubbard .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Works by Oscar Brashear in the catalog of the German National Library
- Oscar Brashear at Allmusic (English)
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| SURNAME | Brashear, Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American post bop and hard bop jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |