Thurman Green

Thurman Alexander Green II (* 12. August 1940 in Longview , Texas ; † 19th June 1997 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz - trombone player , arranger and composer .

Live and act

Green studied trombone in junior high school and moved to Los Angeles in 1958 to study at Compton College. From 1961 to 1965 he played as a soldier in a band of the Kriegsmarine; In 1962 he attended the Navy School of Music in Washington DC, where he met Hamiet Bluiett . He then returned to Los Angeles, where he worked as a studio musician on numerous music recordings (including Benny Golson and Gene Harris ) and film soundtracks. In 1981 he received a composition grant from the National Endowment for the Arts . After earning a Bachelor of Arts from California State University at Dominguiez Hills , he completed his music studies in 1986 with a Master of Arts in composition. He performed the symphony he composed with a philharmonic orchestra.

In 1987 he went on a European tour with Mercer Ellington ; he then gave concerts with Benny Carter in 1988/89 and 1991 in Japan. In the 1990s he also worked in the bands of Gerald Wilson , Louie Bellson , the Clayton - Hamilton Big Band, Bill Berry / Frank Capp and Horace Tapscott . In 1991 he was an ensemble player on the Miles Davis album Dingo . Between 1988 and 1992 he co-led a quintet with Buster Cooper , with which he performed at the 1987 Monterey Jazz Festival . In 1989 his trio album Cross Current was released .

In 1994 the album Dance of the Night Creatures followed on Mapleshade , where u. a. Hamiet Bluiett, John Hicks and Walter Booker contributed. In 1995 he founded the formation BoneSoir with friends Maurice Spears , Garnett Brown and George Bohanon . After his sudden death in 1997 after a European tour, Phil Ranelin and other colleagues started the Thurman Green Scholarship Festival .

Green's compositional work ranges from jazz to classical music. His best-known jazz compositions include Cross Current , One for Lately and Dance of the Night Creatures . Scott Yanow emphasizes Green's musical spectrum, which extends from big band music to free jazz .

Lexigraphic entries

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

• Thurman Green at Allmusic (English)
• Biographical portrait at Trombone USA with discography
• Interview with Phil Ranelin on All About Jazz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Review of the album Dance of the Night Creatures by Scott Yanow on Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 20, 2011.
2. ↑ Information on the 6th Thurman Green Scholarship Festival at All About Jazz ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.