Bill chase trumpet biography of michael

Bill Chase October 20, — August 9, was an American trumpeter and leader of the jazz-rock band Chase. In his mid-teens he settled on trumpet. After graduating from high school, he studied classical trumpet at the New England Conservatory but switched to the Schillinger House of Music Berklee College of Music. One of Chase's charts from this period, "Camel Walk", was published in the Downbeat magazine yearbook.

In , he started a jazz rock band named "Chase" that mixed pop, rock, blues, and four trumpets.

In , he followed Bill Chase to Woody Herman's band, where he played screaming lead and became road manager.

Rounding out the group was Terry Richards, who was the lead vocalist on the first album. The album contains Chase's most popular song, "Get It On", released as a single that spent 13 weeks on the charts beginning in May The song features what Jim Szantor of Downbeat magazine called "the hallmark of the Chase brass—complex cascading lines; a literal waterfall of trumpet timbre and technique.

Chase released their second album, Ennea , in March ; the album's title is the Greek word for nine, a reference to the nine band members. The original lineup changed midway through the recording sessions, with Gary Smith taking over on drums and G. Shinn replacing Terry Richards on lead vocals. The third album, Pure Music , moved the band toward jazz.

Two of the songs were written or co-written by Jim Peterik of the Ides of March , who also sings on the album, along with singer and bassist Dartanyan Brown. Chase's work on a fourth studio album in mid came to an end on August 9, Chase encouraged long tones as an exercise for developing the embouchure and attributed much of his ability in the upper register of the trumpet to this practice.