Editing Bob Brookmeyer (section)

==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. 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 |publisher=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, 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>