1. Robert Edward "Bob" Brookmeyer was an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer.
14 Facts About Bob Brookmeyer
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Bob Brookmeyer later worked with Jimmy Giuffre, before rejoining Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band.
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Bob Brookmeyer received eight Grammy Award nominations during his lifetime.
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Bob Brookmeyer was born on December 19,1929, Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
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Bob Brookmeyer attended the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, but did not graduate.
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Bob Brookmeyer 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.
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Bob Brookmeyer was part of small groups led by Stan Getz, Jimmy Giuffre, and Gerry Mulligan in the 1950s.
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Bob Brookmeyer moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1968 and became a full-time studio musician.
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Bob Brookmeyer spent 10 years on the West Coast and developed a serious alcohol problem.
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Bob Brookmeyer wrote for and performed with jazz groups in Europe from the early 1980s.
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Bob Brookmeyer founded and ran a music school in the Netherlands, and taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and other institutions.
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In June 2005, Bob Brookmeyer joined ArtistShare and announced a project to fund an upcoming third album featuring his New Art Orchestra.
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Bob Brookmeyer was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in the same year.
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Bob Brookmeyer died of congestive heart failure on December 15,2011, in New London, New Hampshire.