Roy Campbell
Roy Campbell Jr. (born 1952 in Los Angeles , California - † January 9, 2014 ) was an American jazz trumpeter , cornet player and flugelhorn player .
Live and act
Campbell grew up in New York City . He studied with Kenny Dorham , Lee Morgan and Joe Newman as part of the Jazzmobile program and with Yusef Lateef in the early 1970s, and during this time he performed in the big bands of the Manhattan Community College . He worked with Jemeel Moondoc from 1981 and later founded the formation Other Dimensions in Music with Rashid Bakr , Daniel Carter and William Parker . In 1986 he worked with the violinist Billy Bang. In 1991 he moved to Holland and worked there with Klaas Hekman and Don Cherry .
In 1999 he worked on William Parker's big band production Mayor of Punkville ; in the same year in the big band of Alan Silva . Around 2000 he was a member of The Nu Band , which also included saxophonist Mark Whitecage , bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Lou Grassi . In 2001 he worked again with Moondoc. From the early 1990s, Campbell recorded some albums for the Chicago Delmark label; then worked William Parker, Zane Massey , Reggie Nicholson , Hamid Drake and Wilber Morris with. He also worked with Klaus Kugel , Mat Maneri , Sabir Mateen , Saheb Sarbib , Joe McPhee , Peter Brötzmann (1998 (From Valley to Valley) and with Matthew Shipp in his Horn Quartet (Strata) 1997) and on the production of Good and Evil Sessions (2003).
Discographic notes
- New Kingdom ( Delmark Records , 1991)
- La Tierra Del Fuego (Delmark, 1993)
- Communion ( Silkheart Records , 1994)
- It's Krunch Time (Thirsty Ear, 2000)
- Ethnic Stew and Brew (Delmark, 2000)
- Stone Quartet: Live at Vison 2010 (Ayler, 2018), with Joëlle Léandre , Marilyn Crispell , Mat Maneri
- The Final Concert (2012, ed. 2016), with Mark Whitecage , Joe Fonda, Lou Grassi
Lexical entry
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
Web links
- Works by and about Roy Campbell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography of Linda Seida in the All Music Guide
- Web presence of Roy Campbell, Jr. ( November 13, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Campbell, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campbell, Roy junior (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 2014 |