Bob Brookmeyer has an unusually varied and extensive background in all forms of improvised and composed music. He was born December 19, 1929, attended Kansas City Conservatory of Music where he won ...

Bob Brookmeyer, a jazz trombonist, composer, arranger and educator whose multifaceted career reached from cutting-edge performances with Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz to innovative big band ...

Bob Brookmeyer began his career in the 1950s. From the beginning, he was credited with a highly distinctive personal style, first as an improviser, then as composer and arranger for big-band jazz.

Bob Brookmeyer, a valve trombonist, educator and influential composer/arranger, died last night in New Hampshire, days short of his 82nd birthday. Brookmeyer arrived in New York as a both a ...

Clever title this, even though perchance unintended. Bob Brookmeyer (in his 76th year) and the impressive New Art Orchestra have recorded their fifth album, and first for ArtistShare, Spirit Music—in ...

Valve trombonist Bob Brookmeyer has been a prominent jazz presence for nearly five decades--virtually his entire adult life. Performing with Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz in the ‘50s, Clark Terry ...

A star on valve trombone ever since his glory days with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Brookmeyer also plays piano on the side–and it’s more than just a hobby. On Holiday, his first all-piano ...

Bob Brookmeyer joined Gerry Mulligan’s quartet in 1954–replacing Chet Baker, the jazz world’s equivalent of a matinee idol, in one of its best-known combos. He moved on to play in a high ...

Read his reviews of Madeleine Peyroux, Gilad Atzmon Quartet, Hans Koller Octet, Clark Tracey's Jazz Messengers, Bob Brookmeyer Quartet, Gwilym Simcock Big Band, the Zoe Rahman Trio and the Bobby ...

A half-century or so ago, Bob Brookmeyer was one of the pillars of the West Coast cool school, making his biggest mark playing with and arranging for Gerry Mulligan's groups. Nowadays, the 74-year ...