Bob Enevoldsen

A longtime giant from the Western world Coast jazz landscaping, Bob Enevoldsen trailed just Bob Brookmeyer as his generation’s foremost practictioner from the valve trombone. Enevoldsen was created Sept 11, 1920, in Billings, MT. His Danish-born dad was a specialist violinist who executed the orchestra at their regional silent cinema, and at age group five Bob used the device aswell before shifting to trombone many years afterwards. Recurring lip issues forced him to change to clarinet and tenor saxophone while students at the School of Montana, and he also followed the dual bass ahead of signing up for the U.S. Surroundings Drive in 1942. Stationed in Utah, Enevoldsen resolved in Sodium Lake City pursuing his 1946 armed forces discharge, working being a tenor saxophonist until a colleague lent him a valve trombone. He discovered the fingering extremely like the trumpet, however the device remained over the periphery of his eyesight after he became a member of the Utah Symphony being a clarinetist. Over the information of arranger Gene Roland, Enevoldsen relocated to LA in 1951, and started sitting down in at regional jazz night clubs. As an experienced multi-instrumentalist, his fellow music artists embraced him with open up hands and he shortly agreed upon on as the standard bassist with pianist Marty Paich’s trio. Stints helping Artwork Pepper and Shorty Rogers adopted, and as time passes Enevoldsen produced the valve trombone his device of preference, alternating between tenor sax throughout a extended operate behind Shelly Manne in the famous L.A. nightclub the Lighthouse. In 1954 Enevoldsen lower his first program like a bandleader to get a self-titled LP for the Nocturne label. He later on headlined times for Tampa and Liberty aswell, and even made an appearance in a set of feature movies, 1958’s THE PROPER EXECUTION of Jazz as well as the much-maligned 1960 version from the Jack port Kerouac book The Subterraneans. By enough time from the latter’s launch Enevoldsen was surviving in Las Vegas, employed in nightclubs there. He came back to L.A. in 1962 as an employee arranger and studio room musician for tv celebrity Steve Allen, and spent the rest from the 10 years focused almost specifically on session function. Through the 1970s he finally came back to live show, changing Brookmeyer in Gerry Mulligan’s music group before rejoining Paich to get vocalist Mel Tormé. He also performed in big rings led by Expenses Holman and Roger Neumann, and continuing carrying out in small-group configurations until simply weeks ahead of his loss of life from circulation complications on November 19, 2005.