Randy Brooks

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Randy Brooks (* 15. March 1919 in Sanford , Maine ; † 21st March 1967 ) was an American jazz - trumpet player and leader of a Swing - big band .

Randy Brooks began playing the trumpet at the age of eight to play for the Salvation Army with his parents . At the age of twelve he won a competition for young trumpeters, at fourteen he toured with Rudy Vallee . After graduating from high school in 1937, he moved to New York City to work as a musician. He played with Claude Thornhill , Bob Allen, Art Jarrett and Les Brown before forming his own band in 1944. The composer John Benson Brooks (to whom he is not related) contributed arrangements for the ensemble; The main soloists included vibraphonist Shorty Allen and saxophonist Eddie Kane . In 1946 the young Stan Getz also played in the orchestra. Hit successes were titles like "Tenderly", "Harlem Nocturne" and "The Man With the Horn" for Decca Records ; In 1947 the orchestra was recognized as one of the best in the country on the Down Beat . However, the band's success soon waned - with the end of the big swing bands. Brooks married another band leader, Ina Ray Hutton , in 1949 and moved with her to Los Angeles , where he suffered a stroke in 1950, which ended his musical career. He died in a house fire in 1967 in Maine, where he had lived with his mother.

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SURNAME Brooks, Randy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Sanford (Maine)
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1967
Place of death Sanford (Maine)