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Bob Brookmeyer (Robert Edward Brookmeyer) was born on 19 December, 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., is an American jazz musician, arranger, and composer. Discover Bob Brookmeyer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Robert Edward Brookmeyer
Occupation Musician, composer, arranger, educator
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 19 December 1929
Birthday 19 December
Birthplace Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Date of death 15 December, 2011
Died Place New London, New Hampshire, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1929

Robert Edward "Bob" Brookmeyer (December 19, 1929 – December 15, 2011) was an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer.

Brookmeyer was born on December 19, 1929, Kansas City, Missouri.

He was the only child of Elmer Edward Brookmeyer and Mayme Seifert.

Brookmeyer began playing professionally in his teens.

He attended the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, but did not graduate.

1950

He played piano in big bands led by Tex Beneke and Ray McKinley, but concentrated on valve trombone from when he moved to the Claude Thornhill orchestra in the early 1950s.

He was part of small groups led by Stan Getz, Jimmy Giuffre, and Gerry Mulligan in the 1950s.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Brookmeyer played in New York clubs, on television (including being part of the house band for The Merv Griffin Show), and on studio recordings, as well as arranging for Ray Charles and others.

1954

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligan's quartet from 1954 to 1957.

He later worked with Jimmy Giuffre, before rejoining Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band.

He garnered 8 Grammy Award nominations during his lifetime.

1957

That same album was also nominated in the 57th Annual Grammy Awards for the category of Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album; the CD was entirely made up of Brookmeyer's compositions.

1960

In the early 1960s, Brookmeyer joined flugelhorn player Clark Terry in a band that achieved some success.

1965

In February 1965, Brookmeyer and Terry appeared together on BBC2's Jazz 625.

1968

Brookmeyer moved to Los Angeles in 1968 and became a full-time studio musician.

He spent 10 years on the West Coast and developed a serious alcohol problem.

After he overcame this, he returned to New York.

1979

Brookmeyer became the musical director of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1979, although he had not composed any music for a decade.

1980

Brookmeyer wrote for and performed with jazz groups in Europe from the early 1980s.

He founded and ran a music school in the Netherlands, and taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and other institutions.

In the early 1980's 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 used often 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:

With Steve Allen

With Chet Baker

With Al Cohn

With Stan Getz

With Jim Hall

With Woody Herman

2005

In June 2005, Brookmeyer joined ArtistShare and announced a project to fund an upcoming third album featuring his New Art Orchestra.

2006

The resulting Grammy-nominated CD, titled Spirit Music, was released in 2006.

Brookmeyer was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in the same year.

His eighth Grammy Award nomination was for an arrangement from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's album, Forever Lasting, shortly before his death.

2011

Brookmeyer died of congestive heart failure on December 15, 2011, in New London, New Hampshire.

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.