Oscar Brashear

Among the great jazz trumpeters from the post-1970 period, Oscar Brashear continues to be vastly underrated and frequently overlooked for just two significant reasons: he hasn’t (by 1999) led his own record time and he continues to be based in LA for three years. The truth is, Brashear, whose design is inspired by Lee Morgan, Woody Shaw and especially Freddie Hubbard, provides held his very own with very much better-known players and has a right to be well-known. Brashear began playing piano when he was seven and trumpet by enough time he was 11. After participating in Wright University and Roosevelt School, he previously stints using the orchestras of Woody Herman (1967) and Count number Basie (1968). After freelancing around Chicago, he transferred to LA in 1970. Since that time he continues to be busy within the studios and on jazz schedules, teaming up with (among numerous others) Bobby Hutcherson, Hampton Hawes, Joe Henderson, Horace Sterling silver (1975), J.J. Johnson (1979), Jimmy Smith, the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Harold Property (on / off because the early 1970’s), the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and Billy Childs (with whom he offers often performed duets). However when will he finally obtain his personal record date?