BOBBY BRADFORD
Avant-Garde Jazz / Post Bop • United States
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American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, bandleader and composer.
Born: July 19, 1934 in Cleveland, Mississippi.
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Bobby Bradford is one of America’s Jazz greats and an institution within the greater Los Angeles jazz and improvised music community. He hails from Mississippi and Texas, where he developed both his appreciable skills and unique voice on trumpet and cornet. He moved to Los Angeles in 1953 where he reunited with Ornette Coleman (whom he had previously known in Texas). He subsequently joined Coleman's ensemble until he was drafted into the Air Force and replaced by Don Cherry.
He rejoined Coleman's quartet from 1961 to 1963, before moving back to Los Angeles where he began a long-running and well-documented association with the clarinetist John Carter. In addition, he performed with myriad ensembles and on recording dates with Eric Dolphy, Glenn Horiuchi, George Lewis, Charlie Haden, Ingebrigt Håker-Flaten, Bob Stewart, James Newton, Frode Gjerstad, Vinny Golia, Paal Nilssen-Love, Francis
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