Bobby Durham (jazz musician)

Bobby Durham ( born February 3, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † July 7, 2008 in Genoa, Italy ) was an American jazz drummer.

Durham began - the age of two (his father was a tap dancer ) - as a step- dancers and singers and learned drums in high school, before he began his professional career at the age of sixteen drummer years as a member of The Orioles. In addition, he worked with pianist Oscar Peterson. From 1956 to 1959 he played in the military band of the U.S. Marine Corps.

He then joined up with King James and Stan Hunter before he went to New York in 1960. There he worked among others with Lloyd Price, Wild Bill Davis, Lionel Hampton ( 1962), Count Basie, Slide Hampton, Grant Green, Sweets Edison, Tommy Flanagan and Jimmy Rowles. He took, inter alia, with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Joe Pass and Roy Eldridge on. 1966 to 1971 he was with Ray Brown Trio by Oscar Peterson. He was a member of several combos Al Grey's and 1966 with Duke Ellington. Because of its low-key game, he was popular as a companion of singers, including he accompanied Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and 1973-1980 Ella Fitzgerald. As head of his own trio, he played in his own words anywhere in the world except in Alaska, Russia and Arabia.

During his stay in Europe, he founded the trio with Scandinavian and Italian musicians who belonged to, inter alia, Aldo Zunino, Andrea Zonzaterra and Massimo Farao.

He lived most recently in Basel and Genoa.

Discography

• Bobby Durham Trio / Gerald Price with Michel Gaudry, 1979
• Domani 's Blues, 2005
• For Lovers Only, 2005
• We Three Plus Friends, 2005
• Christmas Jazz, 2006