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Name
Roy Jr.
Role
Jr.
Born
September 29, 1952
Los Angeles, California, U.S. (
1952-09-29
)
Instruments
Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet
Associated acts
Yusef Lateef, Woody Shaw, Jemeel Moondoc, Ellen Christi, Cecil Taylor, David Murray, Matthew Shipp, Billy Bang, Carlos Garnett, William Parker, Klaas Hekman
Died
January 9, 2014, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
Genres
Free jazz, Bebop, Funk, Rhythm and blues
Albums
Akhenaten Suite, New Kingdom, Equilibrium, Nu Bop, Tribute to Albert Ayler Live at th
Billy Bang / Roy Campbell jr. Leverkusen 1986
Roy Sinclair Campbell Jr. (September 29, 1952 – January 9, 2014) was an American trumpeter frequently linked to free jazz, although he also performed rhythm and blues and funk during his career.
Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1952, Campbell was raised in New York City. At the age of fifteen he began learning to play trumpet and soon studied at the Jazz Mobile program along with Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan and Joe Newman. Throughout the 1960s, still unacquainted with the avant-garde movement, Campbell performed in the big bands of the Manhattan Community College. From the 1970s onwards he performed primarily within the context of free jazz, spending some of this period studying with Yusef Lateef.
In the early 1990s Campbell moved to the Netherlands and performed regularly with Klaas Hekman and Don Cherry. In addition to leading his own groups, he performed with Yo La Tengo, William Parker, Peter Brotzmann, Matthew Shipp, and other improvisors. Upon returning to the United States he began leading his group Other Dimensions In Music and also formed the Pyramid Trio, a pianoless trio formed with William Parker. He performed regularly as part of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which is held annually in New York City.
He died in January 2014 of hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at the age of 61.
As leader
New Kingdom (Delmark, 1992)
La Tierra del Fuego (Delmark, 1994)
Communion (Silkheart, 1995)
Ancestral Homeland (No More, 1998)
Ethnic Stew and Brew (Delmark, 2001)
It's Krunch Time (Thirsty Ear, 2001)
Akhenaten Suite (Aum Fidelity, 2008)
As co-leader
with Other Dimensions in Music
Other Dimensions In Music (Silkheart, 1990)
Now! (Aum Fidelity, 1998)
Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time (Aum Fidelity, 2000)
Live at the Sunset (Marge, 2007)
Kaiso Stories (Silkheart, 2011)
with The Nu Band (Roy Campbell Jr., Mark Whitecage, Joe Fonda, Lou Grassi)
Live at the Bop Shop (Clean Feed, 2001)
Live (Konnex, 2005)
The Dope and the Ghost (Not Two, 2007)
Lower East Side Blues (Porter, 2009)
Live in Paris (No Business, 2010)
Relentlessness Live at the Sunset (Marge, 2011)
with Joe McPhee, William Parker & Warren Smith
Tribute to Albert Ayler Live at the Dynamo (Marge, 2009)
As sideman
with Jemeel Moondoc
The Evening of the Blue Men (Muntu, 1979)
New York Live! (Cadence, 1981)
The Intrepid Live in Poland (Poljazz, 1981)
The Athens Concert (Praxis, 1982)
Konstanze's Delight (Soul Note, 1983)
Spirit House (Eremite, 2001)
Live in Paris (Cadence, 2003)
Live at the Vision Festival (Ayler, 2003)
The Zookeeper's House (Relative Pitch, 2014)
with Saheb Sarbib
Live at the Public Theatre (Cadence, 1981)
Aisha (Cadence, 1981)
with Billy Bang
Live at Carlos 1 (Soul Note, 1986)
with William Parker
Flowers Grow in my Room (Centering, 1994)
Sunrise in the Tone World (AUM Fidelity, 1997)
Mayor of Punkville (AUM Fidelity, 2000)
Raincoat in the River (Eremite, 2001)
Spontaneous (Splasc(H), 2002)
Mass for the Healing of the World (Black Saint, 2003)
Fractured Dimensions (FMP, 2003)
For Percy Heath (Victo, 2006)
Essence of Ellington (Centering, 2012)
with Ehran Elisha
Sweet Empathy (Cadence, 1995)
The Kicker (CIMP, 1998)
Lowe Down Suite (CIMP, 1999)
with Peter Brötzmann's Die Like a Dog Quartet
From Valley to Valley (Eremite, 1998)
with Matthew Shipp
Strata (hatOLOGY, 1998)
Pastoral Composure (Thirsty Ear, 2000)
with Rob Brown
Jumping Off the Page (No More, 2000)
The Big Picture (Marge, 2004)
with Alan Silva
& The Sounds Visions Orchestra (Eremite, 2001)
with Yuko Fujiyama
Re-entry (CIMP, 2001)
with Steve Lehman
Structural Fire (CIMP, 2001)
Camouflage (CIMP, 2002)
with Peter Brötzmann Tentet + 2
Short Visit to Nowhere (Okkadisk, 2002)
Broken English (Okkadisk, 2002)
with Maneri Ensemble
Going to Church (Aum Fidelity, 2002)
with Khan Jamal
Balafon Dance (CIMP, 2002)
with Kevin Norton
The Dream Catcher (CIMP, 2003)
with Yo La Tengo
Summer Sun (Matador, 2003)
with Exuberance
The Other Shore (Boxholder, 2003)
Live at Vision Festival (Ayler, 2004)
with Steve Swell
Suite for Players, Listeners and Other Dreamers (CIMP, 2003)
News from the Mystic Auricle (Not Two, 2008)
with Burton Greene
Isms Out (CIMP, 2004)
with Dennis Gonzalez
Nile River Suite (Daagnim, 2004)
with El-P
High Water (Thirsty Ear, 2004)
with Whit Dickey
Coalescence (Clean Feed, 2004)
In a Heartbeat (Clean Feed, 2005)
Sacred Ground (Clean Feed, 2006)
with Marc Ribot
Spiritual Unity (Pi recordings, 2005)
with Charles Tyler
Live at Sweet Basil vol. 1 & 2 (1984) (Bleu Regard, 2006)
with Garrison Fewell
Variable Density Sound Orchestra (Creative Nation Music, 2009)
with Stone Quartet
Live at Vision Festival (Ayler, 2011)
with William Hooker Trio with Dave Soldier
Heart of the Sun (Engine Records, 2013)
with New Atlantis Octet
Unto the Sun (Not Two. 2013)
with Adam Lane
Blue Spirit Band (CIMP, 2013)
Oh Freedom (CIMP, 2013)
Songs
Thanks To The CreatorNew Kingdom · 1992 I Remember LeeNew Kingdom · 1992 Ode For Mr DCIt's Krunch Time · 2001
