J. R. Monterose

JR Monte Rose (actually Frank Anthony Monte Rose, Jr., born January 19, 1927 in Detroit, † September 26, 1993 in Utica, New York ) was an American jazz musician (tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone ).

Life and work

Monte Rose was born in Detroit and grew up in Utica (New York). He first learned clarinet; then moved, impressed with Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry's game, for tenor saxophone. Later he worked influences of Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt and Charlie Parker. 1948/49, Mount Rose worked with local bands to Utica and Syracuse; In 1950 he took part in a tour to California with the band by Henry Busse part. Back in Utica he was playing with local musicians, before he went into Buddy Rich Big Band (1952 ) and then in the orchestra by Claude Thornhill played (1954 ), to the limitations of big band work too much narrowed it. 1955 Monte Rose played with Dan Terry and Teddy Charles, and worked in the New York jazz club groove club in Greenwich Village. 1956 played with Kenny Dorham Monte Rose, the same year he participated in the recording of Pithecanthropus Erectus by Charles Mingus with. In 1956 he had his first opportunity to make its own formation recordings for the jazz label Blue Note Records; and was attended by Ira Sullivan, Horace Silver, Wilbur Ware and Philly Joe Jones. Despite this debut success and some notable recordings in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it never succeeded in Monte Rose, to succeed as a leader. He also took up with George Wallington, Oscar Pettiford, with singer Sue Childs, with the vocalists Carmelito Esposito and with the Belgian bassist Freddie Deronde.

JR Monte Rose is not to be confused with the jazz musician Jack Montrose ( "West Coast Jack ").

Selection Discography

  • J. R. Monte Rose ( Blue Note, 1956)
  • The Message ( Jaro, 1959); published under the title Straight Ahead ( Xanadu Records, 1976)
  • Body And Soul (Munich, 1970)
  • And ... A Little Pleasure ( Uptown, 1981) with Tommy Flanagan
  • T. T. T. ( Storyville, 1988)
  • Teddy Charles: Evolution, 1953-1955, ( Prestige, 1955)
  • René Thomas: Guitar Groove ( Jazzland, 1960)
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