Herbie Harper

Herbert Harper (2 July 1920 — 21 January 2012[1]) was an American jazz trombonist of the West Coast jazz school.

Born in Salina, Kansas, he first started playing swing music with Benny Goodman and Charlie Spivak in the 1940s and 1950s. Working on the West Coast jazz scene, he performed with such musicians as Stan Kenton, Bill Perkins and Maynard Ferguson, among others.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

In June 1949, he was a member of the band backing Billie Holiday on her famous Just Jazz radio broadcast for AFRS in Los Angeles.[8] Other band members were Neal Hefti (trumpet), Herbie Steward (clarinet, tenor saxophone), Jimmy Rowles (piano), Robert "Iggy" Shevak (bass) and Roy "Blinky" Garner (drums).

In 1954, he recorded several sessions as a member of Steve White's Hollywood-based quartet.

Discography

As leader
  • Jazz in Hollywood Series (Nocturne, 1954)
  • Herbie Harper (Bethlehem, 1955)
  • Herbie Harper Quintet (Tampa, 1955)
  • Herbie Harper Featuring Bud Shank and Bob Gordon (Liberty, 1956)
  • Herbie Harper Sextet! (Mode, 1957)
  • Herbie Harper Revisited (Sea Breeze, 1983)
  • Two Brothers with Bill Perkins (V.S.O.P. 1992)

As sideman

With Benny Carter

  • Aspects (United Artists, 1959)
  • The Benny Carter Jazz Calendar (United Artists, 1959)
  • Plays Cole Porter's Can-Can and Anything Goes (Lone Hill, 2009)

With Bob Florence

  • Name Band: 1959 (Carlton 1959)
  • Bongos/Reeds/Brass (HiFi, 1960)
  • Here and Now!/Bold, Swinging Big Band Ideas (Liberty, 1964)
  • Live at Concerts by the Sea (Trend, 1980)
  • Westlake (Discovery, 1981)
  • Soaring (Bosco, 1983)
  • Magic Time (Trend, 1984)
  • Trash Can City (Trend, 1987)
  • State of the Art (USA, 1988)

With Stan Kenton

  • By Request (Creative World, 1971)
  • By Request Vol. II (Creative World, 1972)
  • By Request Vol. III (Creative World, 1973)

With Pete Rugolo

With others

References
  1. Herbie Harper 1920-2012 Archived 2013-06-30 at Archive.today Los Angeles Jazz Society. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  2. Yanow, Scott. "Herbie Harper Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
  3. All Music Guide to Jazz, The experts' guide to the best jazz recordings, second edition, edited by Michael Erlewine, San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1996
  4. All Music Guide to Jazz, The definitive guide to jazz music, fourth edition, edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2002
  5. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, First edition, two volumes, edited by Barry Kernfeld, London: Macmillan Press, 1988
  6. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, edited by Barry Kernfeld, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994
  7. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second edition, Three volumes, edited by Barry Kernfeld, London: Macmillan Publishers, 2002
  8. Billie Holiday discography Jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
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