Bob Enevoldsen
Albums
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Appearances
![Rhapsody in Blue [Blue Note]](/cache/JHS/d4/130x130_on-sale_d40978c7jl6.png)
This CD sampler has 18 songs written by the Gershwins and recorded during a 24-year period for labels now owned by the Blue Note family. Featured are the Billy May [more]
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Hollywood Swing & Jazz: Hot Numbers from MGM, Warner Brothers & RKO Films collects '30s and '40s film music from three of Hollywood's biggest studios. Louis Armstrong's "Jeepers Creepers," Harry James & His Orchestra's
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Drummer Buddy Rich put together an interesting 11-piece group for this tribute to Count Basie. The only Basie alumnus present is trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison but [more]
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Bill Holman's second album as a leader was originally released on Coral before being reissued on Sackville in 1979. The masterful arranger is heard taking some rare solos on [more]
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![Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics [SACD]](/cache/JHS/g2/130x130_g20052npsb2.jpg)
Another outstanding Art Pepper late '50s album, although in a different style. Pepper was backed by an 11-piece orchestra and applied his torrid solos to [more]
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Though it's sometimes relegated to second or third place among {Tormé}'s best albums of the '50s (behind {Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette} and It's a Blue World), it's [more]
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![View From the Side [Bonus Track]](/cache/JHS/g0/130x130_on-sale_g07076gvo26.png)
Although he never seems to win any popularity polls, Bill Holman is among the most respected and unique arrangers of the last 40 years of the 20th century. This CD [more]
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Modern Touch is a CD reissue that compiles the complete contents of two LPs led by arranger-pianist Marty Paich: The Broadway Bit and I Get a Boot out of You. Since the groups are [more]
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These were Jimmy Giuffre's first recordings as a leader. A native of Dallas, TX, Giuffre developed his chops in the reed sections of postwar [more]
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Biography
- Born Sep 11th 1920 in Billings, MT
- Died Nov 19th 2005 in Los Angeles, CA
A longtime giant of the West Coast jazz landscape, Bob Enevoldsen trailed only Bob Brookmeyer as his generation's foremost practictioner of the valve trombone. Enevoldsen was born September 11, 1920, in Billings, MT. His Danish-born father was a professional violinist who conducted the orchestra at their local silent movie theater, and at age five Bob took up the instrument as well before moving to trombone several years later. Recurring lip troubles forced him to switch to clarinet and tenor saxophone while a student at the University of Montana, and he also adopted the double bass prior to joining the U.S. Air Force in 1942. Stationed in Utah, Enevoldsen settled in Salt Lake City following his 1946 military discharge, working as a tenor saxophonist until a colleague lent him a valve trombone. He found the fingering remarkably similar to the trumpet, but the instrument remained on the periphery of his vision after he joined the Utah Symphony as a clarinetist. On the advice of arranger Gene Roland, Enevoldsen relocated to Los Angeles in 1951, and began sitting in at local jazz clubs. As a skilled multi-instrumentalist, his fellow musicians embraced him with open arms and he soon signed on as the regular bassist with pianist Marty Paich's trio. Stints supporting Art Pepper and Shorty Rogers followed, and over time Enevoldsen made the valve trombone his instrument of choice, alternating between tenor sax during a lengthy run behind Shelly Manne at the legendary L.A. nightclub the Lighthouse. In 1954 Enevoldsen cut his first session as a bandleader for a self-titled LP on the Nocturne label. He later headlined dates for Tampa and Liberty as well, and even appeared in a pair of feature films, 1958's {#The Form of Jazz} and the much-maligned 1960 adaptation of the Jack Kerouac novel -The Subterraneans. By the time of the latter's release Enevoldsen was living in Las Vegas, working in nightclubs there. He returned to L.A. in 1962 as a staff arranger and studio musician for television star Steve Allen, and spent the remainder of the decade focused almost exclusively on session work. During the 1970s he finally returned to live performance, replacing Brookmeyer in Gerry Mulligan's band before rejoining Paich in support of singer {Mel Tormé}. He also played in big bands led by Bill Holman and Roger Neumann, and continued performing in small-group settings until just weeks prior to his death from circulation problems on November 19, 2005. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
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