Sam Dockery

Sam Dockery (* in Lawnside / New Jersey) is an American jazz pianist.

Dockery, who lives mostly in Philadelphia, in the early 1950s worked with the trumpeter Clifford Brown. He became known in 1956 and 1957 as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, where he appeared with Bill Hardman, Jackie McLean, Spanky DeBrest and occasionally Johnny Griffin. The late 1950s and early 1960s, he was next to the bassist Buster Williams and drummer Specs Wright member of the quartet of Jimmy Heath.

Later worked Dockery et al with Sonny Stitt, Benny Golson and Stan Getz. Since the 1990s, he also taught at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In addition to recording with the Jazz Messengers in the 1950s, there are more recent shots of Dockery among others on the double album Live At Ortlieb 's Jazz House ( 2000). He has a hard sound and a little bumpy improvised melody lines.