Roy Campbell, Jr.

Roy Campbell, Jr.

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Background information
Born (1952-09-29)September 29, 1952
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died January 9, 2014(2014-01-09) (aged 61)
The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Genres Free jazz
Bebop
Funk
Rhythm and blues
Instruments Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet
Associated acts Yusef Lateef, Woody Shaw, Jemeel Moondoc, Ellen Christi, Cecil Taylor, David Murray, Matthew Shipp, Billy Bang, Carlos Garnett, William Parker, Klaas Hekman

Roy Sinclair Campbell, Jr. (September 29, 1952 – January 9, 2014) was an American trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, although he also performed rhythm and blues, bebop and funk at times during his career.

Biography

Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1952,[1] Campbell was raised in New York. At the age of fifteen he began learning to play trumpet and soon studied at the Jazz Mobile program along with Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan and Joe Newman.[2] Throughout the 1960s, still unacquainted with the avant-garde movement, Campbell performed in the big bands of the Manhattan Community College. From the 1970s onwards he performed primarily within the context of free jazz, spending some of this period studying with Yusef Lateef.[3]

In the early 1990s Campbell moved to the Netherlands and performed regularly with Klaas Hekman and Don Cherry.[2] In addition to leading his own groups, he performed with Yo La Tengo, William Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Matthew Shipp, and other improvisors. Upon returning to the United States he began leading his group Other Dimensions In Music and also formed the Pyramid Trio, a pianoless trio formed with William Parker.[2] He performed regularly as part of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which is held annually in New York City.

He died in January 2014 of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at the age of 61.[4][5]

Discography

As leader

As co-leader

with Other Dimensions In Music
with The Nu Band (Roy Campbell Jr., Mark Whitecage, Joe Fonda, Lou Grassi)
with Joe McPhee, William Parker & Warren Smith

As sideman

with Jemeel Moondoc
with Saheb Sarbib
with Billy Bang
with William Parker
with Ehran Elisha
with Peter Brötzmann's Die Like a Dog Quartet
with Matthew Shipp
with Rob Brown
with Alan Silva
with Yuko Fujiyama
with Steve Lehman
with Peter Brötzmann Tentet + 2
with Maneri Ensemble
with Khan Jamal
with Kevin Norton
with Yo La Tengo
with Exuberance
with Steve Swell
with Burton Greene
with Dennis Gonzalez
with El-P
with Whit Dickey
with Marc Ribot
with Charles Tyler
with Garrison Fewell
with Stone Quartet
with William Hooker Trio with Dave Soldier
with New Atlantis Octet
with Adam Lane

References

  1. ↑ Roy Campbell, Jr. - Biography (2002) Archived 24 December 2010 at WebCite
  2. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott (2000). Trumpet Kings: The Players who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet. Miller Freeman Books. pp. 85–86. ISBN 978-0-87930-600-7. Archived 24 December 2010 at WebCite
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Penguin. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-14-051521-3. Archived 24 December 2010 at WebCite
  4. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/arts/music/roy-campbell-jr-avant-garde-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-61.html?_r=0
  5. ↑ Bynum, Taylor Ho. "Postscript: Roy Campbell, Jr.". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2014-01-11.

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