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{{Short description|American jazz musician, arranger, and composer (1929–2011)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Bob Brookmeyer
| image             = Bob_Brookmeyer.jpg
| caption           = Brookmeyer in a 1963 advertisement
| birth_name        = Robert Edward Brookmeyer
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1929|12|19|mf=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], Missouri, U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2011|12|15|1929|12|19|mf=y}}
| death_place       = [[New London, New Hampshire|New London]], New Hampshire, U.S.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/arts/music/bob-brookmeyer-jazz-musician-and-educator-dies-at-81.html | work=The New York Times | first=Peter | last=Keepnews | title=Bob Brookmeyer, Jazz Musician and educator, Dies at 81 | date=December 18, 2011}}</ref>
| genre             = [[Mainstream jazz]], [[Cool jazz]], [[West Coast jazz]], [[Post bop]]
| occupation        = Musician, composer, arranger, educator
| instrument        = [[Valve trombone]], piano
| years_active      = 
| label             = [[Impulse!]], Mainstream, [[RCA Corporation|RCA]], [[Verve Records|Verve]]
| past_member_of   = [[Gary Burton]], [[Bill Evans]], [[Stan Getz]], [[Jimmy Giuffre]], [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]], [[Gary McFarland]], [[Gerry Mulligan]], [[Lalo Schifrin]], [[Clark Terry]], [[The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra]], [[Claude Thornhill]], [[Zoot Sims]]
}}

'''Robert Edward''' "'''Bob'''" '''Brookmeyer''' (December 19, 1929 – December 15, 2011) was an American jazz [[valve trombone|valve]] trombonist, [[Jazz piano|pianist]], arranger, and composer. Born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of [[Gerry Mulligan]]'s quartet<ref>{{cite book | last=Berendt|first=Joachim| title=The Jazz Book | publisher=Paladin| year=1976|pages=380}}</ref> from 1954 to 1957. He later worked with [[Jimmy Giuffre]],<ref>{{cite book | last=Berendt| title=The Jazz Book | publisher=| year=1976|pages=384}}</ref> before rejoining Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band. He received eight [[Grammy Award]] nominations during his lifetime.
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==Biography==
Brookmeyer was born on December 19, 1929, [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], United States.<ref name="jb1">{{cite book | last=Berendt| title=The Jazz Book | publisher=| year=1976|pages=199}}</ref> He was the only child of Elmer Edward Brookmeyer and Mayme Seifert.<ref name="NYT" />

Brookmeyer began playing professionally in his teens. He attended the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, but did not graduate. He played piano in big bands led by [[Tex Beneke]] and [[Ray McKinley]], but concentrated on valve trombone from when he moved to the [[Claude Thornhill]] orchestra in the early 1950s. He was part of small groups led by [[Stan Getz]], [[Jimmy Giuffre]], and [[Gerry Mulligan]] in the 1950s. During the 1950s and 1960s, Brookmeyer played in New York clubs, on television (including being part of the house band for ''[[The Merv Griffin Show]]''), and on studio recordings, as well as arranging for [[Ray Charles (musician, born 1918)|Ray Charles]] and others.<ref name="NYT" />

In the early 1960s, Brookmeyer joined [[flugelhorn]] player [[Clark Terry]] in a band that achieved some success.<ref name="LarkinJazz">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=62}}</ref> In February 1965, Brookmeyer and Terry appeared together on [[BBC Two|BBC2]]'s ''[[Jazz 625]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://clarkterry.com/#/2011/12/tribute-to-bob-brookmeyer |title=Tribute to Bob Brookmeyer |website=Clarkterry.com |date=December 19, 2011 |access-date =February 10, 2014}}</ref>

Brookmeyer moved to [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], in 1968 and became a full-time studio musician. He spent 10 years on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] and developed a serious alcohol problem. After he overcame this, he returned to New York. Brookmeyer became the musical director of the [[Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band|Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra]] in 1979,<ref name="LarkinJazz"/> although he had not composed any music for a decade. Brookmeyer wrote for and performed with jazz groups in Europe from the early 1980s. He founded and ran a music school in the [[Netherlands]], and taught at the [[New England Conservatory of Music]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], and other institutions.<ref name="NYT" />
[[File:Clark Terry-Bob Brookmeyer.jpg|thumb|[[Clark Terry]] and Brookmeyer at the Clearwater Jazz Festival in the 1980s]]
In June 2005, Brookmeyer joined [[ArtistShare]] and announced a project to fund an upcoming third album featuring his New Art Orchestra. The resulting [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-nominated CD, titled ''Spirit Music'', was released in 2006. Brookmeyer was named a [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Jazz Master in the same year.<ref name="NYT" /> His eighth [[Grammy Award]] nomination was for an arrangement from the [[Vanguard Jazz Orchestra]]'s album, ''Forever Lasting'', shortly before his death.<ref name="NYT" /> That same album was also nominated in the [[57th Annual Grammy Awards]] for the category of Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album; the CD was entirely made up of Brookmeyer's compositions.

Brookmeyer died of congestive heart failure on December 15, 2011, in [[New London, New Hampshire]].<ref name="NYT" /><ref>[http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2011/12/tt_bob_brookmeyer_rip.html artsjournal obituary.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521181154/http://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2011/12/tt_bob_brookmeyer_rip.html |date=May 21, 2012 }}</ref>

== Compositional style ==
One notable element of Brookmeyer's compositional style is his use of [[Contemporary classical music|contemporary classical]] writing techniques in his works for big bands and jazz ensembles. In the early 1980's Brookmeyer was mentored by composer [[Earle Brown]], with whom he explored [[20th-century classical music|20th century classical music]] in depth. Brookmeyer's works since have been influenced by such composers as [[Witold Lutosławski]] (whose cello concerto Brookmeyer used often in teaching students about simple motifs), [[Igor Stravinsky]], [[Claude Debussy]], [[György Ligeti]], and [[Béla Bartók]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Guerra|first=Stephen J. Jr.|title=A Study of Bob Brookmeyer's Compositional Style for Large Jazz Ensemble|publisher=|year=2016|isbn=|location=|pages=55}}</ref>

Some examples of 20th-century classical compositional techniques used in Brookmeyer's jazz pieces are:
* "ABC Blues", where an [[atonal]] [[tone row]] is used to generate melodies and harmonies.
* "The Big Time", where [[polytonality]] is used to develop melodies used earlier on in the composition.
* Bob Brookmeyer uses [[Chromaticism|chromatic harmony]] and [[tone cluster]]s throughout such works as "Seesaw", "Silver Lining", and "Hello and Goodbye".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Guerra |title=A Study of Bob Brookmeyer's Compositional Style for Large Jazz Ensemble |publisher= |year=2016 |isbn= |location= |pages=56–70}}</ref>

==Honors and awards==

===Grammy Awards (nominations)===
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|style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|1960}}
|style="text-align:center;"|''Blues Suite''', composed by Brookmeyer
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition|Best Arrangement]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|1965}}
|style="text-align:center;"|''The Power Of Positive Swinging'', composed by Brookmeyer
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album|Best Instrumental Jazz Performance]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|1966}}
|style="text-align:center;"| ''ABC Blues'', composed by Brookmeyer
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition|Best Original Jazz Composition]]
|{{nom}} 
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|1980}}
|style="text-align:center;"| ''[[Skylark (song)|Skylark]]'', arranged by Brookmeyer
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement|Best Instrumental Arrangement]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|2001}}
|style="text-align:center;"|''Impulsive!'' (Album)
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album|Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|2004}}
|style="text-align:center;"| ''Get Well Soon'' (Album)
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album|Large Jazz Ensemble Album]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|2006}}
|style="text-align:center;"| ''Spirit Music'' (Album)
|style="text-align:center;"| [[Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album|Large Jazz Ensemble Album]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|2008}}
|style="text-align:center;"| ''[[Saint Louis Blues (song)|St. Louis Blues]]'', arranged by Brookmeyer
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement|Best Instrumental Arrangement]]
|{{nom}}
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|{{grammy|2011}}
|style="text-align:center;"| ''Nasty Dance'', arranged by Brookmeyer
|style="text-align:center;"|[[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement|Best Instrumental Arrangement]]
|{{nom}}
|-
{{end}}

==Discography==
=== As leader/co-leader ===
* ''[[Bob Brookmeyer Quartet]]'' (Pacific Jazz, 1954)
* ''[[Bob Brookmeyer Plays Bob Brookmeyer and Some Others]]'' (Clef, 1955)
* ''Happy Minors'' ([[Bethlehem Records|Bethlehem]], 1955) with [[Red Mitchell]], [[Zoot Sims]]
* ''[[The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer]]'' (Prestige, 1956) – recorded in 1954-55
* ''[[Tonite's Music Today]]'' with [[Zoot Sims]] ([[Storyville Records|Storyville]], 1956)
* ''[[Whooeeee]]'' with [[Zoot Sims]] (Storyville, 1956)
* ''Bob Brookmeyer Quintet'' (Vogue, 1956)
* ''Urso and Brookmeyer'' with [[Phil Urso]] ([[Savoy Records|Savoy]], 1956)
* ''[[Brookmeyer]]'' (Vik, 1957) – recorded in 1956
* ''[[Traditionalism Revisited]]'' (World Pacific, 1957)
* ''[[The Street Swingers]]'' (World Pacific, 1958)
* ''[[Jazz Concerto Grosso]]'' with [[Gerry Mulligan]] (ABC–Paramount, 1958) – play Phil Sunkel, recorded in 1957.
* ''They Met at the Continental Divide'' with Trombones Inc. (Warner Bros., 1959)
* ''[[Kansas City Revisited]]'' (United Artists, 1959)
* ''[[The Ivory Hunters]]'' with [[Bill Evans]]  (United Artists, 1959) – also released as ''As Time Goes By'' (Blue Note LT series, 1981)
* ''[[Jazz Is a Kick]]'' (Mercury, 1960)
* ''[[Portrait of the Artist (album)|Portrait of the Artist]]'' (Atlantic, 1960) – recorded in 1959
* ''[[The Blues Hot and Cold]]'' (His Master's Voice, 1960)
* ''[[Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments]]'' (Verve, 1961)
* ''[[7 x Wilder]]'' (Verve, 1961)
* ''[[Trombone Jazz Samba]]'' (Verve, 1962)
* ''[[Bob Brookmeyer and Friends]]'' (Columbia, 1965) – recorded in 1964
* ''The Bob Brookmeyer Small Band'' (Gryphon, 1978)
* ''[[Back Again (Bob Brookmeyer album)|Back Again]]'' (Sonet, 1979)
* ''Through a Looking Glass'' (Finesse, 1981)
* ''Oslo'' (Concord Jazz, 1987)
* ''Morning Fun'' with [[Zoot Sims]] (Black Lion, 1989)
* ''Electricity'' (ACT, 1994) - recorded in 1991
* ''As It Happened Vol. 1'', with [[Roger Kellaway]] (Jazz Heritage, 1994)
* ''Paris Suite'' (Challenge, 1995)
* ''Out of This World'' with [[Metropole Orchestra]] (Koch Jazz, 1998)
* ''Old Friends'' (Storyville, 1998) - recorded in 1994
* ''[[New Works Celebration]]'' (Challenge, 1999) - recorded in 1997
* ''Together'' with [[Mads Vinding]] (Challenge, 1999)
* ''Holiday'' (Challenge, 2001) – plays piano
* ''Madly Loving You'' with the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra (Challenge, 2001)
* ''Stay Out of the Sun'' (Challenge, 2003) - recorded in 2000
* ''Get Well Soon'' with New Art Orchestra (Challenge, 2003) - recorded in 2002
* ''[[Island (Bob Brookmeyer and Kenny Wheeler album)|Island]]'' with [[Kenny Wheeler]] (Artists House, 2003) - recorded in 2002
* ''Spirit Music'' with New Art Orchestra (ArtistShare, 2006)

=== As sideman ===
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'''With [[Manny Albam]]'''
* ''The Jazz Workshop'' (RCA Victor, 1956)
* ''Play Music from the Broadway Musical West Side Story'' (Coral, 1957)
* ''Manny Albam and the Jazz Greats of Our Time'' (Coral, 1957)
* ''Sophisticated Lady'' (Coral, 1958)
* ''The Blues Is Everybody's Business'' (Coral, 1958)
* ''Steve's Songs'' (Dot, 1958)
* ''Jazz Horizons: Jazz New York'' (Dot, 1959)
* ''[[Brass on Fire]]'' (Solid State, 1966)

'''With [[Steve Allen]]'''
* ''...And All That Jazz'' (Dot, 1959)
* ''Soulful Brass #2'' (Flying Dutchman, 1969)

'''With [[Chet Baker]]'''
* ''Chet Baker Sextet'' (Pacific Jazz, 1954)
* ''[[The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker]]'' (Pacific Jazz, 1955) – compilation

'''With [[Teddy Charles]]'''
* ''Teddy Charles Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer'' (Prestige, 1954)
* ''Salute to Hamp Flyin' Home'' (Bethlehem, 1959)

'''With [[Al Cohn]]'''
* ''[[The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer]]'' (Coral, 1957) – rec. 1956
* ''[[Son of Drum Suite]]'' (RCA Victor, 1961)

'''With [[Stan Getz]]'''
* ''[[Interpretations by the Stan Getz Quintet]]'' (Norgran, 1954) – rec. 1953
* ''[[Stan Getz at The Shrine]]'' (Norgran, 1955)
* ''[[Stan Getz and the Cool Sounds]]'' (Verve, 1957)
* ''[[Recorded Fall 1961]]'' (Verve, 1961)
* ''[[Jazz Samba]]'' (Verve, 1962)
* ''[[Big Band Bossa Nova (Stan Getz album)|Big Band Bossa Nova]]'' (Verve, 1962)

'''With [[Jimmy Giuffre]]'''
* ''[[Trav'lin' Light (Jimmy Giuffre 3 album)|Trav'lin' Light]]''  (Atlantic, 1958)
* ''[[The Four Brothers Sound]]'' (Atlantic, 1959)
* ''[[Western Suite]]'' (Atlantic, 1960)

'''With [[Jim Hall (musician)|Jim Hall]]'''
* ''Live at Town Hall Vol. One'' (Musicmasters, 1991)
* ''Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival'' (Challenge, 1999)

'''With [[Nancy Harrow]]'''
* ''You're Nearer'' (Tono 1986)
* ''Street of Dreams'' (Poljazz, 1989)

'''With [[Woody Herman]]'''
* ''The Herd Rides Again'' (Everest, 1958)
* ''The Fourth Herd'' (Jazz Legacy, 1960)
* ''Woody Herman & the Fourth Herd'' (Windmill, 1972)

'''With [[Gary McFarland]]'''
* ''[[The Jazz Version of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying"]]'' (Verve, 1962)
* ''[[Tijuana Jazz]]'' (Impulse! 1966)

'''With [[Gerry Mulligan]]'''
* ''[[Paris Concert (Gerry Mulligan album)|Paris Concert]]''  (Pacific Jazz, 1955) – rec. 1954
* ''[[California Concerts]]'' (Pacific Jazz, 1955) – rec. 1954
* ''[[Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet]]'' (EmArcy, 1955)
* ''[[Recorded in Boston at Storyville]]'' (Pacific Jazz, 1957) – rec. 1956
* ''[[The Teddy Wilson Trio & Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Bob Brookmeyer at Newport]]'' (Verve, 1957)
* ''[[The Concert Jazz Band]]'' (Verve, 1960)
* ''[[Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard]]'' (Verve, 1961) – rec. 1960
* ''[[Gerry Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz]]'' (Verve, 1961)
* ''[[Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band on Tour]]'' (Verve, 1962) – rec. 1960
* ''[[The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1962 album)|The Gerry Mulligan Quartet]]''  (Verve, 1962)
* ''[[Spring Is Sprung]]'' (Philips, 1963) – recorded in 1962
* ''[[Night Lights (Gerry Mulligan album)|Night Lights]]'' (Philips, 1963) – rec. 1962
* ''[[Butterfly with Hiccups]]'' (Limelight, 1964) – rec. 1963-64

'''With [[Jimmy Raney]]'''
* ''Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer'' (ABC-Paramount, 1956)
* ''Jimmy Raney in Three Attitudes'' (ABC-Paramount, 1957)

'''With [[George Russell (composer)|George Russell]]'''
* ''[[New York, N.Y. (album)|New York N.Y.]]'' (Decca, 1959)
* ''[[Jazz in the Space Age]]'' (Decca, 1960)

'''With [[Don Sebesky]]'''
* ''Three Works for Jazz Soloists & Symphony Orchestra'' (Gryphon, 1979)
* ''I Remember Bill'' (RCA Victor, 1998)
* ''Joyful Noise'' (RCA Victor, 1999)

'''With [[Bud Shank]]'''
* ''Bud Shank and Bob Brookmeyer'' (Pacific Jazz, 1954)
* ''The Saxophone Artistry of Bud Shank'' (Pacific Jazz, 1956)

'''With [[Zoot Sims]]'''
* ''[[Tonite's Music Today]]'' (Storyville, 1956)
* ''[[The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims|The Modern Art of Jazz]]'' (Dawn, 1956)
* ''[[Stretching Out (Zoot Sims and Bob Brookmeyer album)|Bob Brookmeyer Octet Stretching Out]]'' (United Artists, 1959)
* ''Choice'' (Pacific Jazz, 1961)
* ''Suitably Zoot'' (Pumpkin, 1979)

'''With [[Clark Terry]]'''
* ''[[The Power of Positive Swinging]]'' (Mainstream, 1965)
* ''[[Tonight (Clark Terry-Bob Brookmeyer Quintet album)|Tonight]]'' (Mainstream, 1965)
* ''[[Gingerbread Men (album)|Gingerbread Men]]'' (Mainstream, 1966)
* ''Previously Unreleased Recordings'' (Verve, 1973)
* ''Gingerbread Gal'' (Mainstream, 1974)
* ''What'd He Say'' (Mainstream, 1974)
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'''With others'''
* [[Cannonball Adderley]], ''[[African Waltz]]'' (Riverside 1961)
* [[Benny Aronov]], ''Shadow Box'' (Choice, 1979)
* [[Ruby Braff]], ''Blowing Around the World'' (United Artists, 1959)
* [[Canadian Brass]], ''Swingtime!'' (RCA Victor, 1995)
* [[Bobby Bryant (musician)|Bobby Bryant]], ''The Jazz Excursion into Hair'' (Pacific Jazz, 1969)
* [[Monty Budwig]], ''Dig'' (Concord Jazz, 1979)
* [[Ralph Burns]], ''Where There's Burns There's Fire'' (Warwick, 1961)
* [[Kenny Burrell]], ''Both Feet On the Ground'' (Fantasy, 1973)
* [[Gary Burton]], ''[[The Groovy Sound of Music]]'' (RCA Victor, 1965)
* [[Ray Charles]], ''[[The Genius of Ray Charles]]'' (Atlantic, 1959)
* [[Tony Coe]], ''Captain Coe's Famous Racearound'' (Storyville, 1996)
* [[Al Jazzbo Collins]], ''Presents Swinging at the Opera'' (Everest, 1960)
* [[John Dankworth]], ''The Zodiac Variations'' (Fontana, 1965)
* [[Eliane Elias]], Bob Brookmeyer, ''Play the Music of Eliane Elias Impulsive!'' (Stunt, 1997)
* [[Bill Evans]], ''Waltz for Debby'' (Not Now Music, 2012)
* [[Gil Evans]], ''Into the Hot'' (Impulse! 1962)
* [[Harold Farberman]], [[Gunther Schuller]], ''Dedicated to Dolphy'' (Cambridge, 1966)
* [[Dave Frishberg]], ''You're A Lucky Guy'' (Concord Jazz, 1978)
* [[Curtis Fuller]], ''[[Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller album)|Cabin in the Sky]]'' (ABC Impulse!,  1970)
* [[Terry Gibbs]], ''Swingin' with Terry Gibbs and His Orchestra'' (EmArcy, 1956)
* [[Astrud Gilberto]], ''The Shadow of Your Smile'' (Verve, 1965)
* [[Buddy Greco]], ''I Like It Swinging'' (Columbia, 1961)
* [[Bobby Hackett]], ''[[Creole Cookin']]'' (Verve, 1967)
* [[Judy Holliday]], ''Holliday with Mulligan'' (DRG, 1980)
* [[Chubby Jackson]], ''Chubby Takes Over'' (Empire, 2005)
* [[Thad Jones]] & Mel Lewis, ''Presenting Thad Jones Mel Lewis & the Jazz Orchestra'' (Solid State, 1966)
* Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, ''Live at the Village Vanguard'' (Solid State, 1967)
* [[Teddi King]], ''Now in Vogue'' (Vogue, 1955)
* [[Michel Legrand]], ''Plays Richard Rodgers'' (Philips, 1963)
* [[Mel Lewis]], ''Make Me Smile & Other New Works by Bob Brookmeyer'' (Finesse, 1982)
* [[Harry Lookofsky]], ''Stringsville'' (Atlantic, 1959)
* [[Charlie Mariano]], ''A Jazz Portrait of Charlie Mariano'' (Regina, 1963)
* [[Red Mitchell]], ''Happy Minors'' (Bethlehem, 1955)
* [[Thelonious Monk]], ''Monk's Blues'' (Columbia, 1992)
* [[Brew Moore]], ''Brothers and Other Mothers Vol. 2'' (Savoy, 1979)
* [[Red Norvo]], ''Red's Rose Room Red's Blue Room'' (RCA Camden 1976)
* [[Anita O'Day]], ''[[All the Sad Young Men (album)|All the Sad Young Men]]'' (Verve, 1962)
* [[Babatunde Olatunji]], ''High Life!'' (Columbia, 1963)
* [[Freda Payne]], ''After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!!'' (Impulse! 1963)
* [[Oscar Pettiford]],  ''[[Another One (Oscar Pettiford album)|Another One]]'' (Bethlehem, 1955)
* [[Michel Petrucciani]], ''Both Worlds'' (Dreyfus, 1997)
* [[Bill Potts (musician)|Bill Potts]], ''The Jazz Soul of Porgy & Bess'' (United Artists, 1959)
* [[Tito Rodriguez]], ''Live at Birdland'' (Bomba, 1963)
* [[Pee Wee Russell]] & [[Coleman Hawkins]], ''[[Jazz Reunion]]'' (Candid, 1961)
* [[Lalo Schifrin]], ''Samba Para Dos'' (Verve, 1963)
* [[Helen Schneider]], ''Right As the Rain'' (Tomato, 1995)
* [[Tom Scott (saxophonist)|Tom Scott]], ''Tom Scott in L.A.'' (Flying Dutchman, 1975)
* [[Carol Sloane]], ''Out of the Blue'' (Columbia, 1962)
* [[Henri Texier]], ''Respect'' (Label Bleu, 1997)
* [[Bob Thiele]], ''Head Start'' (Flying Dutchman, 1969)
* [[Toots Thielemans]], ''Yesterday & Today''
* [[Jeremy Udden]], ''Torchsongs'' (Fresh Sound, 2006)
* [[Phil Urso]], ''The Philosophy of Urso'' (Savoy, 1985)
* [[Helen Ward (singer)|Helen Ward]], [[Peanuts Hucko]], ''With a Little Bit of Swing'' (RCA Victor, 1958)
* [[George Williams (musician)|George Williams]], ''Put On Your Dancing Shoes'' (United Artists, 1960)
* [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]], ''Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones Mel Lewis, the Jazz Orchestra'' (Solid State, 1966)
* [[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]], ''Just an Old Fashioned Love Song'' (A&M, 1971)
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==See also==
* [[List of jazz arrangers]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*[http://www.bobbrookmeyer.com/ Bob Brookmeyer's website]
*[http://www.challengerecords.com/ Record Company] (Challenge Records International)
* {{AllMusic | id= bob-brookmeyer-mn0000051233 | label= Bob Brookmeyer}}
* {{discogs artist|265425-Bob-Brookmeyer|Bob Brookmeyer}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160309211526/http://jazzwisemagazine.com/feature-table-mainmenu-134/5062-bob-brookmeyer-the-art-of-swing Interview with Bob Brookmeyer]
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/arts/music/bob-brookmeyer-jazz-musician-and-educator-dies-at-81.html Bob Brookmeyer] (New York Times Obituary)
*[https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/bob-brookmeyer Bob Brookmeyer Interview] NAMM Oral History Library (1997)

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