Search - Artist/Band: Bob Brookmeyer

• Name: Bob Brookmeyer
• Birthday: 12/19/1929
• Birth Place: Kansas City, MO
• Decades Active: 1950,1960,1970
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Cool, Post-Bop, West Coast Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Trombone Jazz, Vibraphone/Marimba Jazz
• Moods: Ambitious, Complex, Dramatic, Earnest, Elaborate, Exuberant, Literate, Passionate, Searching, Sophisticated, Stately, Theatrical, Witty

Title	Release
Blues Hot & Cold/7 X Wilder	09/08/2009
Music for String Quartet & Orchestra	12/03/2008
The Modernity of Bob Brookmeyer: The 1954 Quartets	05/13/2008
Kansas City Sounds	03/05/2007
Spirit Music WA	2007
The Essential Collection	11/20/2006
Complete 1953-1954 Quintet Studio WA	08/03/2004
Mosaic Select: Bob Brookmeyer WA	02/24/2004
Get Well Soon	01/20/2004
Stay Out of the Sun	10/07/2003
Island WA	08/19/2003
Bob Brookmeyer & Kenny Wheeler Quintet Island WA	2003
New Art Orchestra Get Well Soon	2003
Waltzing With Zoe	04/02/2002
Bob Brookmeyer Featuring John Williams & Red Mitchell	2002
Full Circle	2002
Q & A: Jazz Big Band Graz Plays the Music of Bob Brookmeyer	2002
Madly Loving You	10/02/2001
Holiday: Bob Brookmeyer Plays Piano	09/04/2001
Together	05/16/2000
New Works Celebration WA	09/14/1999
Portrait of the Artist/The Four Brothers Sound WA	05/18/1999
Out of This World WA	09/15/1998
Old Friends	08/04/1998
Paris Suite	10/01/1995
Electricity	03/1991
Bob Brookmeyer with the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra	1989
Dreams	08/1988
Oslo WA	09/1986
Back Again WA	1978
Bob Brookmeyer and Friends	1965
Jazz Is a Kick	06/1960
Portrait of the Artist	1960
The Ivory Hunters (Double Barrelled Piano) WA	03/12/1959
Street Swingers WA	1958
Traditionalism Revisited WA	1957
The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer	1955

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. Brookmeyer, who was a strong enough pianist to hold his own on a two-piano date with Bill Evans, occasionally switched to piano with Mulligan. He co-led a part-time quintet with Clark Terry (1961-1966), was an original member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis orchestra (1965-1967), and became a busy studio musician. Brookmeyer was fairly inactive during much of the 1970s, but made a comeback in the late '70s with some very advanced arrangements for the Mel Lewis band (of which he became musical director for a time). Brookmeyer moved to Europe, where he continually writes and occasionally records on his distinctive valve trombone, issuing Old Friends in 1998. New Works Celebration appeared a year later, and in 2000 Brookmeyer issued Together. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide