LC control no. | n 93012811 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Dockery, Sam |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1929-09-08 |
Place of birth | Lawnside (N.J.) |
Affiliation | University of the Arts (Philadelphia, Pa.) Buddy Rich Band Showboat (Jazz club) |
Profession or occupation | Jazz musicians Pianists |
Found in | Jazz Messengers. Hard bop [SR] [1957]: container (Sam Dockery) African American National Biography, accessed December 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dockery, Sam; Samuel Dockery Jr.; pianist, jazz musician; born 08 September 1929 in Lawnside, New Jersey, United States; was hired to play a summer tour with the Buddy Rich big band (1954); played in what would become one of the most famous recording sessions in jazz history-the last record session of the trumpeter Clifford Brown (1955); from late 1957 to 1958 toured with the guitarist Tiny Grimes; became the house pianist for one of Philadelphia's most famed jazz nightclubs-The Showboat; joined the Legends of Jazz big band at the Clef Club and played at a number of other jazz venues; received his bachelor of music from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1988, becoming an instructor at the school as well.) |