Bill Chase

Bill Chase ( born October 20, 1934 in Boston as William Edward Chiaiese; † August 9, 1974 in Jackson ( Minnesota)) was an American trumpeter, who headed the eponymous jazz-rock band Chase.

Chase comes from an Italian-American family who changed their name to Chase, because Chiaiese was considered difficult to pronounce in their environment. His father played the trumpet in the Gillette Marching Band and encouraged his son in his musical interests, the first violin and percussion learned, and then decide as a teenager for the trumpet. After high school he studied classical trumpet, first at the New England Conservatory, but then at the Berklee School of Music. In Berklee Chase heard a concert in 1952 by Stan Kenton with high- note solos by Maynard Ferguson, what inspired him definitively for jazz.

Chase first played in Herb Pomeroy in a Junior Band and other local groups, and then to work after military service as a member of the bands of Ferguson (1958) and Kenton ( 1959/1960 ). Subsequently he was employed during the 1960s lead trumpet in Woody Herman's Thundering Herd and shots involved as Woody's Winners, Live in Antibes, Woody Herman & the Fourth Herd, Jazz Hoot, 1963, My Kind of Broadway, Blue Flame, Live in Seattle, Somewhere, Live at Newport 1966 or heavy exposure.

The band " Chase "

1970 Chase started his own band, simply called Chase. He assembled to three other experienced jazz trumpeter who could all sing and arrange: Ted Piercefield, Alan Ware, and Jerry Van Blair. The rhythm section consisted of Phil Porter, keyboards, Angel South, guitar, Dennis Johnson, bass, and Jay Burrid, drums. As the lead singer was on the first album of the group, was published in 1971, Terry Richards was involved. The song Get It On was released as a single and was in May 1971 for 13 weeks in the charts. The band was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

The second album Ennea the band released in 1972, which was economically different from the almost 400,000 times selling debut no success. For the third plate Pure Music, with a different crew, but still strong trumpet section was published in 1974, Chase was based on strong jazz as the Rockidiom. Work on the fourth disc, which began mid-1974, came on August 9, 1974 succumb because Chase died in a plane crash on the way to a concert. At the same accident keyboardist Wally Yohn, drummer Walter Clark, and guitarist John Emma died.

1977 Album Watch Closely Now was recorded in memory of the band, with many musicians from the original cast (plus Walt Johnson as the fourth trumpet ) were involved.

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