Sam Dockery
Sam Dockery (Sure-Footed Sam) was a hard bop pianist and well-respected musician on the Philadelphia jazz scene since the early 1950s.[1] He appears on 11 recordings as the pianist for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and composed "Sam's Tune" which appears on their 1957 Blue Note recording Ritual.[2] In 1963 he was the pianist for Betty Carter's extended engagement at Birdland,[3] and headed The Sam Dockery Trio in Philadelphia during the 1990s. He also taught at Philadelphia's University of the Arts.[1]
Discography
With Art Blakey
- Hard Bop (Columbia, 1956)
- Originally (Columbia, 1956 [1982])
- Drum Suite (Columbia, 1956)
- Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... (Vik, 1957)
- A Night in Tunisia (Vik, 1957)
- Cu-Bop (Jubilee, 1957)
- Tough! (Cadet, 1957 [1966])
- Hard Drive (Bethlehem, 1957)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Allmusic Biography. See also:"A Veteran Piano Man Just Keeps on Playing", Philadelphia Inquirer, August 9, 1996
- ↑ Alan Goldsher, Hard bop academy: the sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002, p. 91. ISBN 0-634-03793-5
- ↑ William R. Bauer, Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter, University of Michigan Press, 2003, p.91.ISBN 0472067915