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Cecil_Bridgewater in Boston with Yoron I

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Small Group Experience:

  • Horace Silver Quintet 

  • Max Roach Quartet/Double Quartet

  • Joe Henderson Sextet

  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

  • Cecil Bridgewater Quintet/Quartet

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Big Band Experience:

  • Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra

  • Count Basie Orchestra

  • Duke Ellington Orchestra

  • Frank Foster Loud Minority

  • Grover Mitchell Orchestra

  • Cecil Bridgewater Big Band

  • Guest Soloist/Clinician

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Commissions:

  • Veneto Jazz Festival/Workshop - Bassano, Italy

  • Tri-C Jazz Festival – Cleveland, OH

  • Atlanta Jazz Festival – Atlanta, GA

  • Ravinia Jazz Festival – Chicago, ILL.

  • Mellon Jazz Festival – Pittsburgh, PA

  • Cleveland State University – Cleveland, OH

  • Wesleyan University – Middletown, CT

  • University of Massachusetts – Amherst, MA

  • Central State College – Wilberforce, OH

  • Atlanta Arts Festival – Atlanta, GA

  • University of Illinois – Urbana, ILL

  • Meet The Composer – “Cannonball Adderley Suite” 1994

  • Cleveland Chamber Symphony - “New Dawn” 1992

  • Atlanta Arts Festival – “Waltz For Duke Pearson” 1982

  • University of Illinois – “Soul” 1975

  • JazzMobile – “Ceora” 1974

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Instructor:

  • Manhattan School of Music

  • The New School Jazz and Contemporary Music Program

  • Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

  • JazzMobile

  • Queens College

  • William Paterson University

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Education:

  • University of Illinois – Music Education, Applied Music Studies

  • Thad Jones – Composition, arranging, conducting

  • Max Roach – Improvisation, performance

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Producer/Arranger:

Dee Dee Bridgewater      

  • Afro Blue

  • Dear Ella

  • This Is New

Antonio Hart

  • It’s All Good

Vanessa Rubin

  • I’m Glad There Is You

  • New Horizons

  • Pastiche

  • Tadd Dameron Vocal Music

Cecil Bridgewater

  • African Sunrise

  • I Love Your Smile

  • Mean What You Say

  • Generations Suite

  • Lightening and Thunder

Uptown String Quartet 

  • Just Wait a Minute

  • Max Roach Presents the Uptown String Quartet

Michael Carvin

  • Revelation

  • Between Me and You

  • First Time

Grover Mitchell 

  • Hip Shaking

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis

Max Roach

  • Lift Every Voice And Sing

  • Live In Berlin

  • Bright Moments

  • Easy Winners

  • Scott Free

  • Chattahoochee Red

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Performer:

Lena Horne 

  • The Lady & Her Music

McCoy Tyner

  • Song of the New World

  • Inner Voices

Horace Silver

  • United States of Mind, Phases 2&3

TOTAL RECORDING LIBRARY

Credits

Year Album Artist

 All Credits Arranger Assistant Producer Brass Composer Conductor Contractor Copyist Editing Featured Artist Flugelhorn Guest Artist Horn Kalimba Liner Notes Lyricist Main Personnel Member of Attributed Artist Mixing Orchestra Orchestration Percussion Primary Artist Producer Quotation Author Sax (Tenor) Soloist Trombone Trumpet Vocals 

              Arranger, Composer, Flugelhorn, Trumpet

              Percussion

               Trumpet

               Trumpet

               Guest Artist, Trumpet

               Arranger

               Trumpet

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn

              Member of Attributed Artist, Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Trumpet

               Primary Artist

               Trumpet

              Flugelhorn

               Producer, Copyist

               Trumpet, Orchestra

               Main Personnel, Trumpet

              Trumpet

               Quotation Author

              Trumpet

              Arranger, Conductor

              Trumpet

              Main Personnel, Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Trumpet

               Trumpet

               Composer

              Guest Artist, Trumpet, Soloist

              Guest Artist, Trumpet, Composer, Primary Artist

              Composer

              Composer

               Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet, Kalimba

              Liner Notes

               Composer

              Flugelhorn

              Arranger

              Trombone

               Trumpet

               Trombone

              Trumpet

               Trumpet

               Trumpet

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet

               Trumpet

               Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Primary Artist, Producer, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Composer

              Composer

               Producer

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn

              Assistant Producer

               Trumpet

               Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet

               Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Guest Artist, Trumpet

               Arranger, Conductor, Featured Artist, Trumpet, Contractor

              Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Guest Artist, Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet, Composer

              Trumpet

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn

              Guest Artist, Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn

              Guest Artist, Trumpet, Composer

              Flugelhorn, Horn

              Producer

              Producer, Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Guest Artist, Trumpet

              Guest Artist, Trumpet, Assistant Producer

              Producer

              Primary Artist, Producer, Composer, Arranger, Trumpet, Flugelhorn

              Guest Artist, Trumpet

               Trumpet

              Arranger, Mixing, Editing, Composer

              Guest Artist, Trumpet, Composer

              Composer

              Trumpet

               Trumpet

              Trumpet, Composer

              Trumpet

              Trombone

              Producer, Trumpet

              Guest Artist, Composer

               Trumpet

               Trumpet, Composer

               Guest Artist, Trumpet, Composer

              Guest Artist, Trumpet, Composer

              Producer, Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Guest Artist, Trumpet, Composer

              Producer, Arranger, Trumpet, Flugelhorn

              Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Arranger, Trumpet, Composer

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Composer

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Composer

              Orchestration

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Composer

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Trumpet

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Composer

              Trumpet

              Trumpet

               Trumpet

              Trumpet

               Trumpet

               Trumpet

               Trumpet

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Composer

              Trumpet

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Trumpet

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn

              Trumpet

              Kalimba

              Trumpet, Horn

               Trumpet

               Trumpet, Kalimba, Arranger, Lyricist

              Guest Artist, Trumpet

              Flugelhorn, Horn, Soloist

              Guest Artist, Trumpet

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Vocals, Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Trumpet

              Guest Artist, Trumpet

              Trumpet

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn

              Trumpet, Flugelhorn

               Trumpet

               Trumpet, Percussion

               Trumpet, Flugelhorn​

              Guest Artist, Trumpet

               Trumpet

              Guest Artist, Brass

              The Manifesto of Rare Groove

              Trumpet

             Sounds Good, Feels Good Big Beat

             Arranger

             Sleigh Ride Frankie Lynne

             Arranger

             Live at the Jazz Cultural Theatre Abdul Zahir Batin

             Guest Artist, Trumpet

             Jazz for Kids (2022)

             Trumpet

             A Second Chance Dorothy Leigh

             Flugelhorn, Trumpet

             1970s Jazz for Kids

              Trumpet

Cecil Bridgewater

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