Jimmy Knepper

Jimmy Knepper ( born November 22, 1927 in Los Angeles / California as James M. Knepper, † June 14 2003 in Triadelphia, Ohio County / West Virginia) was an American jazz trombonist.

Life

Knepper learned the trombone as a child and came early on with small dance bands. The late 1940s and early 1950s he was a member of the bands of Freddie Slack, Roy Porter, Charlie Spivak, Charlie Barnet, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill, Charlie Parker and Stan Kenton. From 1957 to 1962 he worked with the various groups of Charles Mingus Mingus Dynasty and was order and involved, among others, on the recording of the plates Tijuana Moods, East Coasting, Mingus Ah. At the same time he also worked with Tony Scott, Stan Kenton and with Herbie Mann, with whom he undertook in 1960 an Africa tour. Furthermore, he played with Gil Evans, by 1960 at Out of the Cool and 1963/64, at the sessions for the album The Individualism of Gil Evans and Benny Goodman, whom he accompanied in 1962 on a tour of the Soviet Union. He then worked in the Broadway show Funny Girl.

From 1968 to 1972 Knepper was a member of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra and has performed with the Lee Konitz Nonet -. In 1977 he worked at the Birthday concert with Gil Evans ( Priestess ) and worked for the last time with Charles Mingus ( Cumbia & Jazz Fusion ). Since the early 1980s, he also worked regularly as a music director with the Mingus Dynasty, who used the repertoire of Mingus, to a Parkinson's disease ended his musical career.

Jimmy Knepper was also much involved in the publication of the complete collection of Charlie Parker Transcriptions by Dean Benedetti on Mosaic Records in 1990.

Discography

Ohio County (West Virginia) Mingus Ah Um Tony Scott (musician) Broadway theatre The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra Mingus Dynasty (Band) Mosaic (disambiguation) Mike Richmond (musician) John Clark (musician) Brian Priestley Name Authority File
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