John Anderson (jazz trumpeter)

John Anderson ( born January 31, 1921 in Birmingham (Alabama ); † August 18, 1974 ) was an American trumpeter of Swing.

Life and work

Anderson studied alto horn and tuba at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Westlake College of Music. In 1941, he played in Los Angeles in Tiny Bradshaw, four years in a U.S. Navy band and 1946-1957 with Benny Carter, Stan Kenton, Perez Prado and Earl Bostic. After Anderson worked mainly as a freelance musician. Later he had his own formation in Los Angeles with Buddy Collette, Curtis Counce and Britt Woodman. He also arranged for Buddy Collette.

As a session musician he has participated in numerous West Coast jazz and rhythm and blues recordings. In 1959, Anderson a member of the Count Basie band; in the early 1960s, he recorded with the swing clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and singer Anita O'Day. In the 1970s he was involved in a big-band project by Doc Severinsen. His only album under his own name appeared in 1966 under the title Time Will Tell on the Tangerine label.

In addition to jazz, he took in the 1950s and 1960s, partly as a sideman on many rhythm and blues recordings on the west coast and took with Rick Nelson, Sammy Davis Jr. and Sam Cooke.