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Caughey Roberts (August 25, 1912 – December 15, 1990) was an American jazz alto sax player, best known for his time in the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1930s. He was born in Boley, Oklahoma,〔Fourteen Census of the United States, 1920 https://archive.org/details/14thcensusofpopu1478unit〕 later moving to Los Angeles. He played both baritone and alto sax, and clarinet. During the early-1930s, he was a music band teacher at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles.〔Jazz High by Kirk Silsbee - LA CityBeat Magazine, September 13–19, 2007 ()〕 He later joined Buck Clayton’s 14-piece jazz ensemble (known as the Harlem Gentlemen).〔Yanow, Scott. () (2000). Swing: Third Ear – The Essential Listening Companion. Backbeat Books publishing ()〕 They traveled by cruise liner to Shanghai, China where they performed an extended engagement at the elegant Canidrome Ballroom. He would eventually leave Shanghai before the 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War.〔Jones. Andrew F. () (2001). Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke University Press ()〕〔() Buck Clayton, Nancy M. Elliott, Buck Clayton’s Jazz World. A&C Black, 1995〕 After returning from Shanghai, he replaced Buster Smith in the Count Basie Orchestra, leaving in 1937 when he was replaced by Earle Warren.〔 He also played in Roy Milton's band. He was in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946, and was assigned as a musician to play in the all black band. 〔National Archives and Records Administration, U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 ()〕 In later years he played in the traditional jazz band at Disneyland's New Orleans Square with Teddy Buckner and others.〔( Clora Bryant, ''Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles'', University of California Press, 1999 )〕 He died in Los Angeles in 1990 at the age of 78.〔( Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Count Basie )〕 ==Discography== With Count Basie *''The Original American Decca Recordings'' (GRP, 1937-39 ()) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caughey Roberts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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