Rich Matteson

Rich Matteson, actually Richmond Albert Matteson, ( born January 12, 1929 in Forest Lake (Minnesota), † June 25, 1993 in Jacksonville ( Florida)) was American jazz musician and jazz educator. In addition to euphonium and tuba, he played bass trumpet, valve trombone, and piano and was Helikon big band leader.

Matteson played from 1950 to 1952 in Bands of the U.S. Army and studied music at the University of Iowa with a bachelor 's degree in 1955. Afterwards, he was a schoolteacher in Durant (Iowa). In 1957, he moved to Las Vegas, where he played bass trumpet and tuba in a Dixieland revival band by Bob Scobey and from 1959 to 1961 at the Dukes of Dixieland. In 1967, he led the Brothers Castro Big Band in Mexico City. From 1973 he was at the College of Music at the University of North Texas, where he retired in 1992. He founded in 1976 the Matteson -Phillips Tubajazz Consort with the tuba player Harvey Phillips ( in the euphonium and tuba in triplicate were occupied ).

In 1991 he received the Down Beat Lifetime Achievement Award.

  • Jazz Musician
  • American musician
  • Americans
  • Born in 1929
  • Died in 1993
  • Man
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