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| Excellent local jazz trumpeter's career has spanned four decades -- touring with Jack Teagarden, Tex Beneke, and the Modernaires; conductor and featured soloist with Peggy Lee; recording as a studio musician in over 7000 recording sessions, with artists like Ramsey Lewis, Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Butler, Natalie Cole, Alice Cooper, The Buckinghams, and others. He's also performed with Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Judy Garland, Liza Minelli, Mel Torme, Lena Horne, Al Jarreau, Barry Manilow, The carpenters, Bill Conti, Harry Belafonte, Nancy Wilson, Johnny Carson, James Brown, Maynard Ferguson, Benny Carter, Doc Severinsen, Roy Eldridge, Claude Thornhill, Skitch Henderson, Buddy Morrow, Clark Terry, Jaco Pastorius, Marian McPartland, Art Hodes, Barrett Deems, Ira Sullivan, Vic Damone, Richie Cole, Maureen McGovern, and Bernadette Peters. He's also produced 6 CD recordings of his own music, much of available on Chicago's own Southport Records. "Imagineá the ardently lyric lines of Harry James," says Howard Reich, Chicago Tribuneá Jazz Critic, "the hushed melodic poetry of Chet Baker, the impeccable good taste of Bobby Hackett, and you have the sources and vocabulary of Lewis' work" He's also the creator/leader of The Forefront, a contemporary trumpet ensemble (4 trumpets, bass, drums), co-leader of Ears-Jazz of All Eras, a spontaneous creative jazz ensemble which performed weekly for 17 years dating back to 1975, the Rhythmakers, a mainstream jazz quintet which performed weekly at Andy's for 14 years beginning in 1978, and the leader of Muggles, a jazz roots band featuring the music of Louis Armstrong and early traditional jazz. His recordings include Incantation and In the Forefront (1977), Just Havin' Some Fun! (featuring Chicagoans Jim Ryan, Jeff Stitely, and Pat Mallinger), Flugel Gourmet (with Alejo Poveda, Paul Wertico, and Pat Mallinger), Here I Go Again, Passion Flower, and Inside This Song. For more information, visit their website: http://www.bobbylewis.com/
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