Barrie Lee Hall, Jr.
Barrie Lee Hall Jr. (* June 30, 1949 in Mansfield, Louisiana; † January 25, 2011 in Houston, Texas ) was an American jazz trumpeter, arranger and orchestra leader, who was known for his roles in the late Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Life and work
Barrie Lee Hall attended high school in Houston and Mansfield, where he played in the school band; then he studied at Texas Southern University in Houston, trumpet and piano. At a festival in 1973, he met Duke Ellington, who took him in his orchestra. After the death of Ellington's he was a soloist in the Ghost Band conducted by Mercer Ellington and worked on a number of albums, so on the Grammy-winning Digital Duke. Hall was co- producer of the album Music Is My Mistress ( 1989).
After Mercer Ellington's death in 1996, he headed for a year the Duke Ellington Orchestra. After that, he was still occasionally representative for Paul Mercer Ellington in this role operates. Otherwise, he was musical director of the Liberty Baptist Church in Houston. With its proximity to contemporary and traditional gospel music he had also been the performance of Ellington's Sacred Concert; In 2001 he conducted this performance together with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and a 200-member choir. In addition, Hall worked as a big band leader in Switzerland, orchestrated and arranged for several Broadway productions as Sophisticated Ladies, the jazz opera Queenie Pie, and the television production The Duke Ellington Special, in which he is a trumpet / vocal duet in Creole Love Call had with the opera singer Kathleen Battle. He also arranged a symphonic version of this Ellington classic, worked as an arranger and guest soloist with Gregory Hines, Phyllis Hyman, Melba Moore, the Danish Radio Big Band, as well as with John Dankworth, Alice Babs ( Far Away Star, 1976), the UMO Jazz Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Orchestra.
Disco Graphical Notes
Recordings under his own name
- Duke Ellington Small Band (2006)
Recordings as soloist and arranger
- Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington 's Third Sacred Concert, In Sweden 1973
- Mercer Ellington: Continuum, Take The Holiday Train, Hot And Bothered, Digital Duke,