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Bill Berry (trumpeter)

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Bill Berry
Birth nameWilliam Richard Berry
BornSeptember 14, 1930
Benton Harbor, Michigan, U.S.
DiedNovember 13, 2002 (aged 72)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
GenresJazz
InstrumentsTrumpet

William Richard Berry (September 14, 1930 – November 13, 2002)[1] was an American jazz trumpeter, best known for playing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the early-1960s, and for leading his own big band.

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Early life and education

Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan,[1] Berry was the son of a bass player in a touring dance band. He spent his early years traveling with his parents.[2] From the age of five, he took piano lessons at his parents' home in South Bend, Indiana. In high school in Cincinnati, he switched to trumpet, which he played in a Midwest band led by Don Strickland.[1] Berry studied at the Cincinnati College of Music and Berklee College of Music in Boston, and played trumpet with the Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson orchestra.[1]

Career

Berry served four years in the United States Air Force. In 1961, he became one of the Duke Ellington orchestra's first white members.[3]

After his working with Ellington, he played with The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and led his own big band in New York. In 1965, he joined The Merv Griffin Show, where he remained for fifteen years, moving to Los Angeles with Griffin and reforming his group as the L.A. Big Band in 1971.[1] Jack Nimitz, a baritone saxophonist in his band, said "He knew how to get what he wanted out of the band in a very relaxed way — nice and easy, no shouting."[2] Among the most successful of his own recordings[4] was Shortcake (Concord, 1978),[1] an album of jazz for small group in the Ellington style;[5] he appeared on many albums by other musicians, including Rosemary Clooney (Everything's Coming Up Rosie), Scott Hamilton (Scott Hamilton Is a Good Wind Who Is Blowing Us No Ill), Jake Hanna (Live at Concord), and Coleman Hawkins (Wrapped Tight).

Discography

As leader

  • Jazz and Swinging Percussion (Directional Sound, 1963)[6]
  • Hot & Happy (Beez, 1974)
  • Hello Rev (Concord Jazz, 1976)
  • For Duke (M&K, 1978)
  • Shortcake (Concord Jazz, 1978)

As sideman

With Frank Capp

  • Juggernaut (Concord Jazz, 1977)
  • Live at the Century Plaza (Concord Jazz, 1978)
  • Juggernaut Strikes Again! (Concord Jazz, 1982)
  • Live at the Alley Cat (Concord Jazz, 1987)
  • In a Hefti Bag (Concord Jazz, 1995)
  • Play It Again Sam (Concord Jazz, 1997)

With Duke Ellington

  • Midnight in Paris (CBS, 1962)
  • My People (Contact, 1964)
  • Ellingtonia Reevaluations (Impulse!/ABC 1973)
  • Recollections of the Big Band Era (Atlantic, 1982)
  • Serenade to Sweden (Black Lion, 1982)
  • Jungle Triangle (Black Lion, 1983)
  • Featuring Paul Gonsalves (Fantasy, 1984)

With Maynard Ferguson

With Thad Jones/Mel Lewis

  • Presenting Thad Jones/Mel Lewis & the Jazz Orchestra (Solid State, 1966)
  • Live at the Village Vanguard (Solid State, 1967)
  • Thad Jones/Mel Lewis (Blue Note, 1975)
  • Opening Night (BMG, 1997)
  • Village Vanguard Live Sessions (LaserLight, 1997)
  • The Second Race (LaserLight, 1999)
  • All My Yesterdays (Resonance, 2016)

With others

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 46/7. ISBN 0-85112-580-8.
  2. ^ a b Dennis McLellan, "Bill Berry, 72; Band Leader, Duke Ellington's Trumpeter," Los Angeles Times, November 20, 2002.
  3. ^ Bill Berry, 72, Jazz Trumpeter," obituary, The New York Times, November 19, 2002.
  4. ^ Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz, 1st ed. (1992), p. 104.
  5. ^ Bill Berry, Shortcake, review by Dave Glackin.
  6. ^ "Bill Berry Quartet - Jazz & Swinging Percussion". Discogs. 1963.

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