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Bob Brookmeyer

Robert E. Brookmeyer, often known as Bob Brookmeyer, was an acclaimed American jazz trombonist, arranger and composer who played with many other great artists such as saxophonists Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan, pianist Bill Evans, clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre and flugelhorn player Clark Terry as well as leading his own bands. Born in Missouri, he studied music as a child and attended the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. He had stints with the Tex Beneke and Ray McKinley bands playing piano and switched to valve trombone in the early 1950s when he joined the Claude Thornhill Orchest...