Brookmeyer & Guitars

 

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Brookmeyer & Guitars

Bob Brookmeyer

Cover Drawing: Robert Little

Art Direction: Robert Cain

Kimberly Records Jazz Series 2021

1963

Bob Brookmeyer - Piano and Valve Trombone

Jim Hall and Jimmy Raney - Guitars

Bill Crow - Bass

Osie Johnson - Drums

From the back cover: Swinging trombonist Bob Brookmeyer was born in Kansas City in the not so swinging year of 1929. After graduating from high school where he had taken up both clarinet and trombone, he went on to the Kansas City Conservatory of Music where he studied piano. Influenced at a  very tenders age by Jack Teagarden, Count Basie, Dick Wells and many other greats of that era, it is not surprising that he took the Jazz route in pursuit of his career. Following his release from the army in 1952 he played piano with Ray McKinley, Tex Beneke and Claude Thornhill. One year later he joined the trombone section of the Woody Herman Band from then on his primary instrument was the valve trombone.

The idea for Brookmeyer and Guitars grew out of his constant search for new and different sounds. He is a research man of the Jazz idiom. The recording studio is his laboratory and you the listener the recipient of his Jazz vaccine.

Solos by Brookmeyer, Hall and Raney – backed up by the craftsmanship of Bill Crow on bass and Osie Johnson on drums add up to a musical symmetry which will complement any Jazz Library.

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