Roy Campbell, Jr.

Roy Campbell Jr. ( born 1952 in Los Angeles, California, † January 9, 2014 ) was an American jazz trumpeter, cornetist and flugelhorn player.

Life and work

Campbell grew up in New York City. He studied under the jazz program at Kenny Dorham Mobile, Lee Morgan and Joe Newman and early 1970s with Yusef Lateef and entered into this time in the big bands of the Manhattan Community College on. He worked from 1981 Jemeel Moondoc and later founded the Formation Other Dimensions In Music with Rashid Bakr, Daniel Carter and William Parker. In 1986 he worked with the violinist Billy Bang. In 1991 he moved to Holland, where he worked with Klaas Hekman and Don Cherry.

In 1999, he worked with William Parker's big band production Mayor of Punk Ville; in the same year in the big band of Alan Silva. By 2000 he was a member of the band The Nu band, which also included saxophonist Mark White Cage, bassist Joe Fonda and drummer Lou Grassi. In 2001, he reunited with Moondoc. From the early 1990s, Campbell recorded some albums for the Chicago Delmark label; it seemed William Parker, Zane Massey, Reggie Nicholson, Hamid Drake and Wilber Morris. He also worked with Klaus Kugel, Mat Maneri, Sabir Mateen, Saheb Sarbib, Joe McPhee, Peter Brötzmann (1998 (From Valley to Valley) and Matthew Shipp Horn Quartet ( Strata ) 1997).

Disco Graphical Notes

  • New Kingdom ( Delmark Records, 1991)
  • La Tierra Del Fuego ( Delmark, 1993)
  • Communion ( Silkheart Records, 1994)
  • It's Krunch Time ( Thirsty Ear, 2000)
  • Ethnic Stew and Brew ( Delmark, 2000)

Lexical entry

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6.
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