Name Sam Dockery Role Musician | Music group The Jazz Messengers | |
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Albums Moanin', The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey's Jazz Messeng, Keystone 3, Horace Silver and the Jazz Similar Jackie McLean, Art Blakey, Oscar Pettiford, Sabu Martinez, Jo Jones | ||
Sam dockery live at ortlieb s jazz haus 1999
Samuel Dockery (1929 – December 21, 2015), nicknamed Sure-Footed Sam, was a hard bop pianist and well-respected musician on the Philadelphia jazz scene since the early 1950s. Dockery was born in Camden, New Jersey. He appears on 11 recordings as the pianist for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and composed "Sam's Tune" which appears on their 1957 Blue Note recording Ritual. In 1963 he was the pianist for Betty Carter's extended engagement at Birdland, and headed The Sam Dockery Trio in Philadelphia during the 1990s. He also taught at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. He died in 2015, aged 86.
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- Sam dockery live at ortlieb s jazz haus 1999
- Sam Dockery Halloween Fun Bastien arr by Caublemov
- Discography
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Sam Dockery-Halloween Fun (Bastien, arr. by Cauble).mov
Discography
With Art Blakey
With Clifford Brown
With Butch Ballard and Dylan Taylor
References
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