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American trumpeter (1952–2014)
Roy Campbell Jr.
Photo by Bogdan Dimitriu
Birth name Roy Sinclair Campbell Jr. 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 , funk, R&B Occupation(s) Musician Instrument(s) Trumpet
Musical artist
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 and
funk during his career.
Biography
Born in
Los Angeles, California , in 1952,
[1] Campbell was raised in
New York City . 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] Campbell composed the film music for the documentary Survival in New York (1989) by
Rosa von Praunheim .
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 Brötzmann ,
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 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)
Live at the Bop Shop (
Clean Feed , 2001)
Live (Konnex, 2005)
The Dope and the Ghost (Not Two, 2007)
Lower East Side Blues (Porter, 2009)
Live in Paris (
NoBusiness , 2010)
Relentlessness Live at the Sunset (Marge, 2011)
with
Joe McPhee ,
William Parker &
Warren Smith
As sideman
with
Billy Bang
with
Peter Brötzmann 's Die Like a Dog Quartet
with
Peter Brötzmann Tentet + 2
Short Visit to Nowhere (Okkadisk, 2002)
Broken English (Okkadisk, 2002)
with
Rob Brown
with
Whit Dickey
with
El-P
with Ehran Elisha
Sweet Empathy (Cadence, 1995)
The Kicker (CIMP, 1998)
Lowe Down Suite (CIMP, 1999)
with Exuberance
The Other Shore (Boxholder, 2003)
Live at Vision Festival (Ayler, 2004)
with Garrison Fewell
Variable Density Sound Orchestra (Creative Nation Music, 2009)
with Yuko Fujiyama
with
Dennis Gonzalez
Nile River Suite (Daagnim, 2004)
with
Burton Greene
with
William Hooker Trio with
Dave Soldier
Heart of the Sun (Engine Records, 2013)
with
Khan Jamal
Balafon Dance (CIMP, 2002)
with Adam Lane
Blue Spirit Band (CIMP, 2013)
Oh Freedom (CIMP, 2013)
with
Steve Lehman
Structural Fire (CIMP, 2001)
Camouflage (CIMP, 2002)
with Maneri Ensemble
Going to Church (Aum Fidelity, 2002)
with
Jemeel Moondoc
The Evening of the Blue Men (Muntu, 1979)
New York Live! (Cadence, 1981)
The Intrepid Live in Poland (Poljazz, 1981)
The Athens Concert (Praxis, 1982)
Konstanze's Delight (Soul Note, 1983)
Spirit House (Eremite, 2001)
Live in Paris (Cadence, 2003)
Live at the Vision Festival (Ayler, 2003)
Muntu Recordings (
NoBusiness , 2009)
The Zookeeper's House (
Relative Pitch , 2014)
with New Atlantis Octet
Unto the Sun (Not Two. 2013)
with
Kevin Norton
The Dream Catcher (CIMP, 2003)
with
William Parker
with
Marc Ribot
with
Saheb Sarbib
Live at the Public Theatre (Cadence, 1981)
Aisha (Cadence, 1981)
with
Matthew Shipp
with
Alan Silva
with Stone Quartet
with
Steve Swell
with
Charles Tyler
Live at Sweet Basil vol. 1 & 2 (1984) (Bleu Regard, 2006)
with
Yo La Tengo
References
^
Roy Campbell Jr. – Biography (2002)
Archived July 15, 2011, at the
Wayback Machine
^
a
b
c
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 .
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002).
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . Penguin. p. 243.
ISBN
978-0-14-051521-3 . Archived from
the original on June 18, 2022.
^ Chinen, Nate (2014-01-19).
"Roy Campbell Jr., Avant-Garde Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 61" . The New York Times .
^ Bynum, Taylor Ho (10 January 2014).
"Postscript: Roy Campbell Jr" . The New Yorker . Retrieved 2014-01-11 .
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