Bob Enevoldsen
Bob Enevoldsen ( born January 11, 1920 in Billings (Montana ) and Robert Martin Enevoldsen, † November 19, 2005 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz trombonist, bassist and arranger of the West Coast jazz. He played with Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne.
Life
Bob Enevoldsen studied at the University of Montana, where he graduated in 1942 with a degree in music theory. After his military service at the beginning of his musical career playing Bob Enevoldsen clarinet in Utah Symphony Orchestra in 1951 and moved to Los Angeles where he worked in various West Coast jazz groups, as bassist in 1954/55 with Bobby Troup. In 1955 he was a founding member of the formation Shelly Manne & His Men Often he was heard as a valve trombonist, but he also played tenor saxophone. Enevoldsen made recordings with Leonard Feather, Tal Farlow, Bob Florence, Terry Gibbs, Gerry Mulligan, Lennie Niehaus, Marty Paich, Art Pepper, Shorty Rogers, Dave Pell and Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars and published under his own name. In the 60s he worked as a studio musician in various television shows, so for Ray Anthony, Steve Allen, Woody Woodbury, Peter Marshall and the Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra; He also accompanied the singers Ella Fitzgerald and Anita O'Day. In the 1970s he worked with Bob Crosby, Jack Lesberg, Tex Beneke, Bill Holman, Mel Tormé, and the Lighthouse All Stars. In the 1990s Enevoldsen was mainly active as a freelance musician; so, he contributed to the album A View From The Side by Bill Holman.
Discography (selection)
- Ella Fitzgerald Ella Swings Lightly ( Verve, 1958)
- Tal Farlow: Jazz Masters ( Verve, 1955-58 )
- Herbie Harper: Five Brothers ( VSOP, 1955)
- Bill Holman: A View From The Side ( JVC, 1995)
- Shelly Manne: The West Coast Sound ( OJC, 1955)
- Lennie Niehaus: Zounds ( OJC, 1954-56 ); The Octet No. 2, Volume 3 ( OJC, 1955)
- Art Pepper: Modern Jazz Classics ( OJC, 1959)
- Shorty Rogers Courts The Count (RCA, 1954); The Wizard Of Oz (RCA, 1959)