Bud Shank

Clifford Everett " Bud " Shank ( born May 27, 1926 in Dayton, Ohio, † April 2, 2009 in Tucson, Arizona ) was an American jazz musician ( alto and baritone saxophone, flute, arrangement ).

Life

Shank learned from the age of ten clarinet and saxophone from the age of fourteen. After studying at a college in North Carolina, he went in 1947 to the U.S. West Coast, played until 1948 on the tenor saxophone with Charlie Barnet. Subsequently he was employed 1950-1951 with Stan Kenton, where he recorded an early solo on the jazz flute. After his military service he took in 1953 with Gerry Mulligan Tentet on. When Shorty Rogers, he took composition lessons. Between 1953 and 1956 he was a permanent member of the Lighthouse All Stars and involved in their recordings with Chet Baker and Miles Davis; then he led his own quartet. He also appeared with Shorty Rogers, Pete Rugolo, Teddy Charles and June Christy. With Bob Cooper, he also played in many other projects, such as their concept album Flute and Oboe, with Shelly Manne or Maynard Ferguson. 1957 took the two wind a European tour on which they played with Attila Zoller, Albert Mangelsdorff and Gary Peacock. Since the mid- 1960s, he earned his living as a studio musician and film composer, also played albums with Brazilian and Easy Listening Music about with Sergio Mendes a, the solo played on "California Dreamin ' " by the Mamas and Papas, but still occasionally performed in the jazz context on. In 1974 he founded with Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton and Laurindo Almeida the LA4, he has performed with over a decade; The mid-1980s he went with Shorty Rogers on a European tour, with whom he also 1991 Lighthouse All Stars revived. Shank has also participated in musical border crossings and already played in 1962 with Ravi Shankar as well as later with the Japanese Kotospieler Kimio Eto. At its multi-media performance "Lost Cathedral" also Jay Clayton was involved.

Although Shank took a lot of attention in the 1950s in Europe as an alto, then he has done his probably most important contributions to the flute. His phrasing, his expressiveness and his smooth sound on the instrument are particularly remarkable in the cool jazz context. In 1986, he gave this instrument, however. Was he, as was his sound in the 1950s on the saxophone an ideal typical representative of the Slender West Coast sound since the 1980s through rougher, fuller tones.

In recent years he also played with younger musicians as Lewis Nash or Cyrus Chestnut. In 2005 he founded the Bud Shank Big Band and in 2007 he published with pianist Bill Mays Album Beyond the Red Door. Still on April 1, 2009, he took in San Diego on a new album.

Collection

• The Pacific Jazz Bud Shank Studio Session ( 1956-61 ) - ( Mosaic - 1998 ) - 7 LPs or CDs with 5 Claude Williamson, Don Prell b, Chuck Flores, Jimmy Pratt dm, Larry Bunker, Al Hendrickson g, Jimmy Rowles, Joe Mondragon, Mel Lewis, Billy Bean, Gary Peacock, Carmell Jones, Dennis Budimir, Bob Cooper, Shelly Manne