Bobby Rosengarden
Robert Marshall "Bobby" Rose Garden ( born April 23, 1924 in Elgin (Illinois ), † February 27, 2007 in Sarasota ( Florida)) was an American jazz drummer and studio musician. The experienced also in traditional style drummer areas characterized by a proven on numerous recordings listening and responsiveness as an ideal companion.
Life and work
Rose Garden comes from a musical family, and had from the age of five in Chicago tuition ( sometimes with Louie Bellson ) at Roy Knapp. After studying 1942/43, at the University of Michigan, he made until 1946 from his military service in Army bands. Then he worked in New York City with Charlie Spivak, Raymond Scott and Skitch Henderson to work in 1949 as a studio musician. From 1949 to 1968 he was employed by NBC to work from 1969 to 1974 on ABC as a leader of the band in the Dick Cavett Show. He was also involved in the Steve Allen Show, the Ernie Kovacs Show, Sing Along With Mitch and Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. He was in recording and live broadcasts partner musicians from all directions, including in the first phase also often Arturo Toscanini. In the recording studio, he accompanied such diverse artists as Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman / Igor Stravinsky ( Ebony Concerto ), Quincy Jones, Gil Evans / Miles Davis, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz, Arlo Guthrie, Carmen McRae, Ben E. King, Harry Belafonte ( " Banana Boat " ), Barbra Streisand, Jimi Hendrix, Dave Brubeck and Tony Bennett.
In addition, he worked since 1965 repeatedly for Benny Goodman. From 1973 to 1978 he played at The World's Greatest Jazz Band, and from 1974 he was part of the New York Jazz Repertory Company, with which he toured through Europe in 1975. In addition, he accompanied Bob Wilber Soprano Summit. Since the mid- 1970s, Rose Garden played regularly at major festivals such as the Newport Jazz Festival, but also in Europe - with their own groups as well as in the bands of Peanuts Hucko, Gerry Mulligan, Kenny Davern and in trio with the pianist Hank Jones and Dick Wellstood and bassist George Duvivier and Milt Hinton.
With percussionist Phil Kraus, with whom he worked as a solid team in the 1950s and 1960s in the studios and also albums such as Playful and Pretty Like ... and had played bongos, he published in 2000 the CD ... Just bongos with images from this series.
Lexigraphic entries
- Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia, vol 2, 2002 Reinbek. Rowohlt 2002 ISBN 3-499-16513-9