Sam Burtis

Sam Burtis (* 2. October 1948 in Far Rockaway ( New York )) is an American jazz - trombone . He also plays tuba , euphonium , piano and synthesizer .

Sam Burtis began playing the tuba and eventually the trombone during his school days. During this time he met Carmell Jones , Chubby Jackson and John LaPorta , who supported him in his career; so he was in 1963 a member of Chubby Jackson's band. He then studied at College in Ithaca and briefly at Berklee College of Music before moving to New York in 1967 to study a. a. to study with Jimmy Knepper .

In 1967 Burtis played with Buddy Rich and in 1968 worked with his own group. In the 1970s he was a member of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra and the Lee Konitz Nonet; In 1971 he was involved in the Escalator over the Hill project. He also worked with Dave Mathews , the Jazz Composer's Orchestra , Eumir Deodato , Grant Green , Herbie Mann , Esther Phillips , Tito Puente , Machito , Eddie Palmieri and other Latin bands from Fania Records .

In the early 1980s he was mainly active as a freelance musician, continued to work with Tito Puente and the Mingus Dynasty . In 1990 he worked on Gunther Schuller's epitaph project; In the early 1990s he also acted as musical director of the Mingus Big Band at their appearances in New York's Time Cafe and participated in their album Nostalgia in Time Square . In 1998 he played in Bob Mintzer's big band in his dmp production Latin in Manhattan .

Since the 2000s he has been increasingly active as a composer, arranger, artistic director and music teacher, for example at the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen . In 2004 he worked on Mike Longo's album Oasis .

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• Bielefeld catalog 1985, 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

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