born on December 19, 1929 in Kansas city Missouri Bob Brookmeyer was an only child. Bob Brookmeyer began to play skillfully in his teens picking it up as a hobby. He began to attend but did not graduate Kansas city conservatory of music. He was a piano player for big bands with leaders like; Tex Beneke, an American saxophonist, singer, and band leader known mainly for being “one of the major blues singers who sang with the big bands of the early 1940s.” according to jazz critic will friedwald and Gerry Mulligan, an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger, known for being on of the lead baritone saxophonist in jazz history. Afterwards he began to focus more on the thing that convinced me to chose this artist. The valved
