{{short description|Australian jazz trumpeter and bandleader|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Geoffrey Randolph Bull''' (born 26 May 1942, [[Sydney]]) is an Australian [[jazz]] trumpeter and [[bandleader]].
Bull played with the Melbourne New Orleans Jazz Band in 1961, then formed his own group, the Olympia Jazz Band, in [[Sydney]]; his sidemen included guitar/banjoist Geoff Holden, clarinetist Peter Neubauer, and bassist Dick Edser. The group played often at the Brooklyn and Orient hotels in Sydney. He toured internationally in 1966-67 and recorded with [[Alton Purnell]], [[Barry Martyn]], and [[Captain John Handy]]. He returned to [[New Orleans]] in 1974 and several times thereafter, recording with many local musicians. Additionally, he arranged for musicians such as Purnell and [[Sammy Price]] to tour Australia.
==References== *Roger T. Dean, "Geoff Bull". ''[[The New Grove|The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz]]'' online.
==Further reading== *B. Johnson, ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz''. Melbourne, 1987. *W. Bebbington, ed. ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Music''. Melbourne, 1997.
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