Bob Brookmeyer
USA
Born: 19 December 1929
Died: 15 December 2011
Years Active: 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Cool, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, West Coast Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Bop, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Big Band/Swing
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Bob Brookmeyer has long been the top valve trombonist in jazz and a very advanced arranger whose writing is influenced by modern classical music. He started out as a pianist in dance bands but was on valve trombone with Stan Getz (1953). He gained fame as a member of the Gerry Mulligan quartet (1954-1957), was part of the unusual Jimmy Giuffre Three of 1957-1958 (which consisted of Giuffre's reeds, Brookmeyer's valve trombone, and Jim Hall's guitar), and then re-joined Mulligan as arranger and occasional player with his Concert Jazz Band. Brook...
See also
- Larry Koonse (1)
Similar artists
- Miles Davis (281)
- Thad Jones (5)
Influenced by
- Duke Ellington (169)
- Bill Evans (88)
- Count Basie (74)
- Gerry Mulligan (32)
- Gil Evans (15)
- Jelly Roll Morton (8)
- Art Tatum (5)
- J.J. Johnson (3)
- Jack Teagarden (2)
Followers
- Stan Getz (185)
- Jim Hall (42)
- Zoot Sims (36)
- Clark Terry (17)
- Hank Jones (12)
- Curtis Fuller (11)
- Roswell Rudd (3)
- Al Cohn (3)
- Maria Schneider (2)
- Don Sebesky (2)
- Michel Colombier (1)
- Manny Albam (1)
Performed Songs By
- George Gershwin (4)
- Cole Porter (2)
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