Wednesday 19 May 2021

Bobby Bryant born 19 May 1934


Bobby Bryant (May 19, 1934 – June 10, 1998) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. 

A fine trumpeter with a wide range who primarily performed with big bands (often playing lead), Bobby Bryant was considered a valuable musician, although as a soloist he tended to be underrated. 

Bryant was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and played trumpet and tenor saxophone in his youth before settling on the former. He moved to Chicago in 1952, attending the Cosmopolitan School of Music. After graduating in 1957, Bryant freelanced for three years in Chicago, working with Red Saunders, backing singer Billy Williams, and gigged with smaller groups. 

He spent 1960 in New York and then relocated to Los Angeles the following year where he permanently settled and became a fixture on the West Coast jazz scene. Bryant appeared in many different situations throughout the years including touring with Vic Damone, heading his own groups and playing with such big bands as Charles Mingus (1964), Oliver Nelson, Gerald Wilson, the Frank Capp/Nat Pierce Juggernaut, and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Perhaps his most famous solo was in the song "L.O.V.E" recorded with Nat King Cole in 1964. 


         Here's "Let The Sunshine In" from above 1969 album.

                             

As a leader, Bryant led big-band dates for VeeJay (1961), two for Pacific Jazz in 1969, and one for Cadet (1971), in addition to a sextet set for Cadet in 1967; all are quite difficult to find. 


In addition to his big-band work, Bryant was quite active in the studios and as a jazz educator especially with The Next Wave Big Band, with its mix of emerging and established musicians which served as a proving ground for its young artists. Bad health plagued him in the '90s but he was playing on a part-time basis almost to the end. He died in Los Angeles on 10th June 1998 of a heart attack at the age of 64.

(The only information I could find edited from AllMusic) 

3 comments:

boppinbob said...

FOR “BOBBY BRYANT - CHICAGO YEARS
(2 LPS ON 1 CD) + BONUS TRACK” GO HERE:

https://www.upload.ee/files/13157071/Bobby_Bryant_-_Chicago_Years.rar.html

01. Blues Excerpt (Bryant) 4:19
02. 'Round Midnight (Monk) 4:41
03. Secret Love (Fain-Webster) 3:24
04. Love for Sale (Porter) 3:34
05. Sleepy (Bryant) 2:14
06. Cry Me a River (Hamilton) 3:36
07. Indiana (Jerome) 2:39
08. Falling In Love with You (Evans-Reardon) 3:38
09. Harlem Rain (Bryant) 4:06
10. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' (Greene) 3:13
11. Husky (Bryant) 3:30
12. Church Seat (Bryant) 3:31
13. Sandra's Dream (Bryant) 5:20
14. Travelin' (Wrice) 2:31
15. Swingin' & Things (Bryant) 3:32
16. Santifism (Bryant) 3:16
17. Antler Rock (Bryant) 3:09
18. Nocturne (Bryant) 4:27
19. Unholy Four (Bryant) 2:44
20. Wild Wrice (Bryant) 4:19
21. Blues for the Q (Bryant) 4:14

Sources:
Tracks #1-10, from the album
Big Band Blues (Vee Jay VJS 3059) 1961
Tracks #11-20, from the album
The Big Sound of Larry Wild Wrice Wild!
(Pacific Jazz PJ ST 24) 1959
Track #21, from the album
The Billy Williams Revue (Coral CRL 757343) 1960

These recordings were made when Bobby Bryant lived in Chicago, and document the beginnings of his later successful career in the Hollywood studios. The first ten tracks were recorded in 1961 for Vee Jay Records, but were released only in 1974 as Big Band Blues. As he recalled in the album notes, it was intended to bring out of obscurity a number of talented musicians. As it turned out, a couple of them did become better known, while others just remained in Chicago and are no more prominent today than they were then. The band was specially assembled for the session; we never did any gigs together.
The second album, Wild!, was made when drummer Larry Wild Wrice returned to Chicago in 1959, after eight months away, and formed the group heard here, with James Spaulding, Bobby Blevins, and Bobby Bryant, who arranged much of the groups material and wrote all the albums tunes except Travelin, written by Wrice.

The last track on this collection comes from the album The Billy Williams Revue, an example of the musical excitement with which the irrepressible Williams and company packed the countrys most celebrated night spots. A unique blues in waltz time, Blues for the Q features an electrifying trumpet solo by Bryant.

This CD is testimony to the memory of the talented soloist, composer and arranger Bobby Bryant was. (Blue Sound notes)

boppinbob said...

For “Bobby Bryant - Earth Dance (1969 reissue 2011)” go here:

https://www.upload.ee/files/13157827/Bobby_Bryant_-_Earth_Dance.rar.html

01 Earth Dance 04:18
02 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 03:58
03 Since I Left Home 04:00
04 Cristo Redentor 04:01
05 Crisis 04:54
06 Happiness Is A Warm Gun 03:08
07 Love Is Like An Old, Old Man 03:46
08 I Want To Testify 04:50

Musicians
Arrangements, Trumpet Bobby Bryant
Saxophone Ernie Watts
Saxophone Pete Christlieb
Saxophone Herman Riley
Trumpet Buddy Childers
Trumpet Freddie Hill
Trumpet Paul Hubinon
Trombone George Bohannon
Trombone John "Streamline" Ewing
Trombone Bill Tolz
Bass Trombone Mike Wimberley
Piano Joe Sample
Bass Wilton Felder
Bass John Duke
Violin Melvin Moore
Drums Carl Lott
Congas Bob Norris
Congas Chino Valdes
Tuba Don Waldrop
Harmonica Donald Bailey
Guitar Mike Anthony
Horn David Allen Duke
Arrangements Dave Frank
Arrangements John Anderson

KING said...

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Bobby Bryant – The Jazz Excursion Into Hair 1969
Bobby Bryant – Swahili Strut 1970