Chuck Metcalf

Charles " Chuck" Metcalf ( born January 8, 1931 † 11 January 2012) was an American jazz bassist and composer.

Metcalf's parents were music teachers; First he learned violin and piano before switching to bass at age 15. In Seattle, where he lived with his father, he studied at the College of the University of Washington and played in the local jazz scene, inter alia, with Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, Buddy Catlett and Ray Charles. In the 1950s he worked in the main job as an architect and was active on the weekends as a musician before he was a full-time musician in the 1960s. This was followed by tours with Anita O'Day and Joe Venuti. In 1970 he participated in sessions by Stu Goldberg and Gavin Walker; It emerged first recordings in the trio of pianist Overton Berry.

In 1972 he moved to San Francisco; there he participated in Mark Murphy's album Stolen Moments. From 1979 he lived in New York, where he played among others with Sonny Simmons; In 1980 he went on tour with Dexter Gordon. After returning to Seattle, he played with Ernestine Anderson and Bert Wilson; thereafter he lived until 1985 in the Netherlands. After his return, he worked again with Bert Wilson; it was followed by tours with Jim Pepper, Frank Morgan and his own quartet. In 1989 he presented his debut album Elsie Street ( Bopware ) with original compositions, including the trumpeter Jay Thomas and George Cables on piano. In 1991 he was recording octet Help Is Coming. The mid-1990s he returned to the San Francisco Bay Area; In 2004 he recorded the album Thinking of You ( Lyrichromatic Records). In 2010, he was still working with Richie Cole, before he retired as an active musician. As a music educator, he was in the jazz program at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, at Western Washington University in Bellingham and at Cornish College in Seattle worked.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Doug Hammond & David Durrah: Reflections in the Sea Of Nurnen (1975 )
• Bert Wilson and Rebirth: Rebirth Loves Monk ( 1986)