Tommy Turrentine
Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. [ tʌɹn̩tiːn ] (* 22. April 1928 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; † 15. May 1997 ) was a modern jazz - and hard bop - trumpet player in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
From 1946 to 1956 he played in the combos of Benny Carter (1946), Earl Bostic (1952–1955) and Charles Mingus (1956). During this time he also worked in the big bands of Billy Eckstine , Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie . From 1959 to 1960 he was employed by Max Roach with his younger brother, tenor saxophone player Stanley Turrentine . In the early 1960s he made recordings as a band leader ("Tommy Turrentine", "Tommy Turrentine Plus Max Roach") and played on records by Horace Parlan , Jackie McLean , Sonny Clark , Lou Donaldson , Dexter Gordon and his brother Stanley. Then he retired from the jazz scene.
Lexical 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 .
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| SURNAME | Turrentine, Tommy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Turrentine, Thomas Walter Jr. (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American swing and hard bop trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 22, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1997 |