Buddy Childers

Marion " Buddy" Childers ( born February 12, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri, † 24 May, 2007 Los Angeles, California ) was an American big band jazz trumpeter.

Biography

Childers killed himself at age 12 even trumpet with and entered into St. Louis with 14 of the Musicians' Union at. He became famous when he was lead trumpet in the band of Stan Kenton with only 16 years, before his high school graduation. In his own words he had while Harry James and Corky Corcoran as role models who had their first big band as young involvement in a " name " band. He was lead trumpet after Kenton fired three trumpeters paused while playing. The position was so exhausting that he, as well as Al Porcino, once collapsed on stage at Kenton. With interruptions, he was from 1942 to 1954 in Kenton. In between, he played with André Previn, Benny Carter, Les Brown, Vido Musso, Woody Herman (1949 ), Charlie Barnet (1950 ) and 1951 with Tommy Dorsey. In 1952 he participated in Stan Kenton's album New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm with. After that he played with Georgie Auld and again at Barnet, then worked as a freelancer in Los Angeles, and from 1959 to 1966 in Las Vegas.

After that, he was until the 1980s a studio musician in Los Angeles. In the late 1970s he played in the Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin big band, and from 1983 he was musical director of Frank Sinatra. In Los Angeles, he also had their own big band in the 1980s and 1990s, he recorded with the recordings for Candid Records, and was next to a successful professional photographer. Childers was the Baha'i faith since 1982 followers. The last ten years of his life he suffered from cancer, but still played until a year before his death in a wheelchair.

Discography

• SAM Songs ( ( Fresh Sound Records, 1955 /56) with Herbie Steward, Arnold Ross, Harry Babasin )
• Just Buddy's ( Candid, 1983/84 )
• West Coast Quintet ( Candid, 1994)
• It's What's Happening Now ( Candid, 1996)