Misty – Bob Brookmeyer (Bob Brookmeyer & Friends)

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Released on: 1965-01-01 Composer: Erroll Garner Drums: Elvin Jones Lyricist: Johnny Burke Vibraphone: Gary Burton Piano: Herbie Hancock Bass: Ron Carter Tenor Saxophone: Stan Getz Producer: Teo Macero.

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Bob Brookmeyer (December 19, 1929, Kansas City, Missouri, USA – December 15, 2011, New London, New Hampshire, USA) is one of the few jazz musicians to have chosen the valve trombone as a career instrument. Born in Kansas City, he began his musical studies with the clarinet at his hometown Conservatory and later expanded his musical studies to include piano and trombone. His first professional experience was as a big band musician with Ray McKinley, Louis Prima, and Tex Benecke, and eventually with Woody Herman’s band. In 1952, he decided to permanently use the valve trombone and joined saxophonist Stan Getz’s group, where he began to gain recognition. A year later, he took the place of trumpeter Chet Baker in Gerry Mulligan’s famous quartet and remained with him for four years.

After a brief stint with multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Giuffre’s combo and an appearance at the 1958 Newport Festival, he decided to work independently under his own name and recorded a few albums, including a famous one with pianist Bill Evans. In 1963, he joined a project that would yield juicy moments in jazz history: the famous big band organized by baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, known as the “Concert Jazz Band.”

He recorded several albums with the Verve. As part of that big band and with Mulligan, he had the opportunity to travel to Europe and be introduced to European audiences. He recorded with the quintet he formed in 1964, Clark Terry, and later with the magnificent duo formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and the Mel Lewis Orchestra.

After a brief stay in Los Angeles, he returned to New York in the late 1970s with impressive experience and maturity. He currently spends his life between Scandinavia and New York, always focused on the music that brought him fame and fame.

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Compositional style

One notable element of Brookmeyer’s compositional style is his use of contemporary classical writing techniques in his works for big bands and jazz ensembles. In the early 1980s, Brookmeyer was mentored by composer Earle Brown, with whom he explored 20th century classical music in depth. Brookmeyer’s works since have been influenced by such composers as Witold Lutosławski (whose cello concerto Brookmeyer often used in teaching students about simple motifs), Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, György Ligeti, and Béla Bartók.

Some examples of 20th-century classical compositional techniques used in Brookmeyer’s jazz pieces are:

• “ABC Blues”, where an atonal tone row is used to generate melodies and harmonies.
• “The Big Time”, where polytonality is used to develop melodies used earlier on in the composition.
• Bob Brookmeyer uses chromatic harmony and tone clusters throughout such works as “Seesaw”, “Silver Lining”, and “Hello and Goodbye”.

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Bob Brookmeyer Quartet (Pacific Jazz, 1954)
Bob Brookmeyer Plays Bob Brookmeyer and Some Others (Clef, 1955)
Happy Minors (Bethlehem, 1955) with Red Mitchell, Zoot Sims
The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer (Prestige, 1956) – recorded in 1954-55
Tonite’s Music Today with Zoot Sims (Storyville, 1956)
Whooeeee with Zoot Sims (Storyville, 1956)
Bob Brookmeyer Quintet (Vogue, 1956)
Urso and Brookmeyer with Phil Urso (Savoy, 1956)
Brookmeyer (Vik, 1957) – recorded in 1956
Traditionalism Revisited (World Pacific, 1957)
The Street Swingers (World Pacific, 1958)
Jazz Concerto Grosso with Gerry Mulligan (ABC–Paramount, 1958) – play Phil Sunkel, recorded in 1957.
They Met at the Continental Divide with Trombones Inc. (Warner Bros., 1959)
Kansas City Revisited (United Artists, 1959)
The Ivory Hunters with Bill Evans (United Artists, 1959) – also released as As Time Goes By (Blue Note LT series, 1981)
Jazz Is a Kick (Mercury, 1960)
Portrait of the Artist (Atlantic, 1960) – recorded in 1959
The Blues Hot and Cold (His Master’s Voice, 1960)
Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments (Verve, 1961)
7 x Wilder (Verve, 1961)
Trombone Jazz Samba (Verve, 1962)
Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (Columbia, 1965) – recorded in 1964
The Bob Brookmeyer Small Band (Gryphon, 1978)
Back Again (Sonet, 1979)
Through a Looking Glass (Finesse, 1981)
Oslo (Concord Jazz, 1987)
Morning Fun with Zoot Sims (Black Lion, 1989)
Electricity (ACT, 1994) – recorded in 1991
As It Happened Vol. 1, with Roger Kellaway (Jazz Heritage, 1994)
Paris Suite (Challenge, 1995)

Out of This World with Metropole Orchestra (Koch Jazz, 1998)
Old Friends (Storyville, 1998) - recorded in 1994
New Works Celebration (Challenge, 1999) - recorded in 1997
Together with Mads Vinding (Challenge, 1999)
Holiday (Challenge, 2001) – plays piano
Madly Loving You with the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra (Challenge, 2001)
Stay Out of the Sun (Challenge, 2003) - recorded in 2000
Get Well Soon with New Art Orchestra (Challenge, 2003) - recorded in 2002
Island with Kenny Wheeler (Artists House, 2003) - recorded in 2002
Spirit Music with New Art Orchestra (ArtistShare, 2006)

With others

Cannonball Adderley, African Waltz (Riverside 1961)
Benny Aronov, Shadow Box (Choice, 1979)
Ruby Braff, Blowing Around the World (United Artists, 1959)
Canadian Brass, Swingtime! (RCA Victor, 1995)
Bobby Bryant, The Jazz Excursion into Hair (Pacific Jazz, 1969)
Monty Budwig, Dig (Concord Jazz, 1979)
Ralph Burns, Where There's Burns There's Fire (Warwick, 1961)
Kenny Burrell, Both Feet On the Ground (Fantasy, 1973)
Gary Burton, The Groovy Sound of Music (RCA Victor, 1965)
Ray Charles, The Genius of Ray Charles (Atlantic, 1959)
Tony Coe, Captain Coe's Famous Racearound (Storyville, 1996)
Al Jazzbo Collins, Presents Swinging at the Opera (Everest, 1960)
John Dankworth, The Zodiac Variations (Fontana, 1965)
Eliane Elias, Bob Brookmeyer, Play the Music of Eliane Elias Impulsive! (Stunt, 1997)
Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby (Not Now Music, 2012)
Gil Evans, Into the Hot (Impulse! 1962)
Harold Farberman, Gunther Schuller, Dedicated to Dolphy (Cambridge, 1966)
Dave Frishberg, You're A Lucky Guy (Concord Jazz, 1978)
Curtis Fuller, Cabin in the Sky (ABC Impulse!, 1970)
Terry Gibbs, Swingin' with Terry Gibbs and His Orchestra (EmArcy, 1956)
Astrud Gilberto, The Shadow of Your Smile (Verve, 1965)
Buddy Greco, I Like It Swinging (Columbia, 1961)
Bobby Hackett, Creole Cookin' (Verve, 1967)
Judy Holliday, Holliday with Mulligan (DRG, 1980)
Chubby Jackson, Chubby Takes Over (Empire, 2005)
Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, Presenting Thad Jones Mel Lewis & the Jazz Orchestra (Solid State, 1966)
Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, Live at the Village Vanguard (Solid State, 1967)
Teddi King, Now in Vogue (Vogue, 1955)
Michel Legrand, Plays Richard Rodgers (Philips, 1963)
Mel Lewis, Make Me Smile & Other New Works by Bob Brookmeyer (Finesse, 1982)
Harry Lookofsky, Stringsville (Atlantic, 1959)
Charlie Mariano, A Jazz Portrait of Charlie Mariano (Regina, 1963)
Red Mitchell, Happy Minors (Bethlehem, 1955)
Thelonious Monk, Monk's Blues (Columbia, 1992)
Brew Moore, Brothers and Other Mothers Vol. 2 (Savoy, 1979)
Red Norvo, Red's Rose Room Red's Blue Room (RCA Camden 1976)
Anita O'Day, All the Sad Young Men (Verve, 1962)
Babatunde Olatunji, High Life! (Columbia, 1963)
Freda Payne, After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! (Impulse! 1963)
Oscar Pettiford, Another One (Bethlehem, 1955)
Michel Petrucciani, Both Worlds (Dreyfus, 1997)
Bill Potts, The Jazz Soul of Porgy & Bess (United Artists, 1959)
Tito Rodriguez, Live at Birdland (Bomba, 1963)
Pee Wee Russell & Coleman Hawkins, Jazz Reunion (Candid, 1961)
Lalo Schifrin, Samba Para Dos (Verve, 1963)
Helen Schneider, Right As the Rain (Tomato, 1995)
Tom Scott, Tom Scott in L.A. (Flying Dutchman, 1975)
Carol Sloane, Out of the Blue (Columbia, 1962)
Henri Texier, Respect (Label Bleu, 1997)
Bob Thiele, Head Start (Flying Dutchman, 1969)
Toots Thielemans, Yesterday & Today
Jeremy Udden, Torchsongs (Fresh Sound, 2006)
Phil Urso, The Philosophy of Urso (Savoy, 1985)
Helen Ward, Peanuts Hucko, With a Little Bit of Swing (RCA Victor, 1958)
George Williams, Put On Your Dancing Shoes (United Artists, 1960)
Joe Williams, Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones Mel Lewis, the Jazz Orchestra (Solid State, 1966)
Paul Williams, Just an Old Fashioned Love Song (A&M, 1971)