Bob Brookmeyer

Also known as Robert Brookmeyer, Robert Edward "Bob" Brookmeyer

American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer (1929–2011)

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1929-12-19
Active to: 2011-12-15

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Discography

Plays Bob Brookmeyer and Some Others1955
The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer1955
Happy Minors1955
The Al Cohn Quintet1956
Brookmeyer1957
Traditionalism Revisited1957
Play Phil Sunkel's Jazz Concerto Grosso1957
Street Swingers1958
The Ivory Hunters1959
Jazz Is a Kick1960

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Listeners: 74,217
Total plays: 346,045

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Robert Edward Brookmeyer (December 19, 1929 – December 15, 2011) was an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer. Brookmeyer was born on Dec. 19, 1929, in Kansas City, Mo., the only child of Elmer Edward Brookmeyer and the former Mayme Seifert. He began playing music professionally as a teenager and attended the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, but left before graduating Brookmeyer played piano with the big bands of Tex Beneke and Ray McKinley <a href="https://www.last

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Kansas City
Place of death: New London
Spouse: Margo Guryan
Occupation: recording artist
Employer: New England Conservatory
Languages spoken: English language
Award: NEA Jazz Masters
Genre: jazz
Instrument: piano
Official website: www.bobbrookmeyer.com
Image: Clark Terry-Bob Brookmeyer.jpg

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manner of death: natural causes
date of birth: 1929-12-19
date of death: 2011-12-16
Commons category: Bob Brookmeyer
cause of death: heart failure
birth name: Robert Edward Brookmeyer
name in native language: Bob Brookmeyer

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