Wayne Dockery

Wayne Dockery (born 26 June 1941 in Camden / New Jersey) is an American jazz bassist.

Dockery, who came from a musical family, his older brother, Sam Dockery, studied classical music and initiated in the early 1960s own jazz band. After army service as a tuba player in Vietnam, he studied history and mathematics. He also worked as a taxi driver and again began to play bass.

In 1971 he became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers; in addition, he worked with Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Sonny Stitt, George Benson, Billy Higgins, Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine, Woody Shaw, Randy and Michael Brecker, Cedar Walton, Bobby Timmons, George Coleman, John Scofield and Elvin Jones and undertook in 1979 with Stan Getz on a tour of Brazil. After his return to New York he founded the band Wayne Dockery Con Alma.

In the early 1990s he went to Paris, where he worked with the quartets of Archie Shepp and Sonny Fortune. With Emery Davis and Gil Benoit, he founded the DDG Pocket Trio.