{{short description|American trumpeter (born 1957)}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Roger Ingram | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | image = Roger Ingram at the Kentucky Museum with his 1600i trumpet.jpg | caption = Roger Ingram at the Kentucky Museum with his 1600i trumpet | birth_name = Roger O'Neal Ingram | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|11|13}} | birth_place = Pasadena, California, United States | genre = Jazz, swing, pop | occupation = Musician, teacher, author, instrument designer | instrument = Trumpet, flugelhorn, piano | years_active = 1972–present | associated_acts = Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Wynton Marsalis, Ray Charles, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Harry Connick Jr. | website = {{URL|www.RogerIngram.com}} }}
'''Roger O'Neal Ingram''' (born November 13, 1957) is a jazz trumpeter, educator, author, and instrument designer. He played trumpet for the orchestras of Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Wynton Marsalis, Ray Charles, and Harry Connick Jr.
==Early life== The youngest of three children, Ingram was born November 13, 1957, in Pasadena, California. His mother ran the household and worked as a tailor and dressmaker from their home in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles; his father was a freelance artist, actor, and musician.<ref name="interview2">Philip Biggs, February–April 2012, "Roger Ingram in conversation with Philip Biggs", ''The Brass Herald'' Issue 42, pp 28-32</ref> His father worked as a staff animator on early Popeye cartoons and several early Disney animations, including the movie ''Fantasia''.<ref>John Culhane, ''Walt Disney's Fantasia''</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2017}} He hosted a radio show in Los Angeles in the 1930s, singing and playing ukulele. During the 1940s and 50's he worked in Hollywood as a singer and actor and was in over thirty movie and TV shows, including ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'', ''Superman'', and ''Titanic''.
He played saxophone and harmonica and brought Ingram to hear Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Al Hirt, Buddy Rich, Barney Bigard, Jack Teagarden, Kid Ory, Woody Herman, Rafael Méndez, and Teddy Buckner. He gave Ingram his first trumpet and mouthpiece in 1965. The trumpet is a bare brass horn made in post-war Japan during the American occupation. The bell is stamped "Koondr, Kailangan Tokyo."<ref name="interview1">{{cite journal |first=Nick |last=Mondello |date=January 2011 |title=Roger Ingram, on Swinging, Surviving and Thriving On and Off the Road |journal=ITG Journal |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=67–72}}</ref><ref name="interview3">Philip Biggs, Dec 2012/Jan 2013, "Roger Ingram in conversation with Philip Biggs", ''The Brass Herald'' Issue 46, pp 42-44</ref>
Ingram began playing the trumpet at age eight. Growing up in Los Angeles, he became acquainted with Hollywood session trumpeters. Many of these introductions came through John Rinaldo, his band director at Eagle Rock High School. Rinaldo's jazz program included others who went on to become professionals, such as drummers Carlos Vega and Sam Wiley, bassists Scott Colley and David Stone, guitarist Larry Koonse, saxophonists Doug Rinaldo, Brian Mitchell, and Gary Hypes, trombonists Arturo Velasco and Luis Bonilla, pianist Guy Steiner, and trumpeters Bobby Muzingo and Buddy Gordon. Through Rinaldo, Ingram was able to meet and study with Bobby Shew and Laroon Holt. Ingram's teachers included Bud Brisbois, Mannie Klein, Roy Stevens, Don Raffell, Bobby Findley, Carmine Caruso, Reynold Schilke, James Stamp, Uan Rasey, Mel Broiles, and Dan Jacobs.<ref name="interview2" /><ref name="interview1" />
==Career== ===Early performing=== At sixteen, Ingram toured with Louie Bellson, sharing section duties with Blue Mitchell, Bobby Shew, Cat Anderson, and Frank Szabo. His first international gigs were with the group during the 1974 Belvedere King Size Jazz Festival Tour at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, the Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, and the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada. After his stint with Bellson, he graduated from high school and then joined Quincy Jones on a fall tour. After that tour, he spent a year touring with Connie Stevens, playing lead trumpet for the first time.<ref name="interview1" />
At eighteen, Ingram played first trumpet with singer Tom Jones and toured with him for six years.<ref>Larry Kemp, ''Current Jazz Trumpet Legends'', 2018. pp 148-149</ref> After that, he moved to Las Vegas, where for two years he gained experience playing on the Las Vegas Strip.
===With Woody Herman and Maynard Ferguson=== In 1985, Ingram joined the Woody Herman Orchestra as lead trumpet. Ingram's friend Ron Stout held the jazz trumpet chair and helped get him in the band.<ref name="chronicles">{{cite book |last1=Clancy |first1=William D. |last2=Coke Kenton |first2=Audree |title=Woody Herman: Chronicles of the Herds |date=1995 |publisher=Schirmer Books |pages=349–355}}</ref> He remained with the band until Herman's death in 1987. He recorded three Grammy-nominated albums with Herman: ''The 50th Anniversary Tour'',<ref name="fifty">{{cite web |title=Fiftieth Anniversary Tour |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fiftieth-anniversary-tour-mw0000188188/credits |website=AllMusic |accessdate=25 September 2018}}</ref> ''Woody's Gold Star'',<ref name="gold">{{cite web |title=Woody's Gold Star |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/woodys-gold-star-mw0000201196/credits |website=AllMusic |accessdate=25 September 2018}}</ref> and ''The Concord Years''.<ref name="best">{{cite web |title=Best of Woody Herman & His Big Band: The Concord Years |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/best-of-woody-herman-his-big-band-the-concord-years-concord-mw0000101077/credits |website=AllMusic |accessdate=25 September 2018}}</ref>
He is the last lead trumpeter to play with the "original" Woody Herman Orchestra.<ref name="woodchopper">{{cite book |last1=Herman |first1=Woody |last2=Troup |first2=Stuart |title=The Woodchopper's Ball: The Autobiography of Woody Herman |date=1994 |publisher=Hal Leonard |pages=143–145}}</ref> Ingram returned to Los Angeles after Herman's death, founding and co-leading his big band with saxophonist Steve Elliott. The Ingram-Elliott big band featured Bobby Shew, Till Brönner, Bill Watrous, and Gary Foster.<ref name="itg1">{{cite journal |last1=Backhaus |first1=Patricia |title=Steve Elliot, Roger Ingram Big Band |journal=ITG Journal |date=December 1989 |page=17}}</ref>
In 1988, he worked with the WDR Jazz Orchestra in Cologne, Germany. While in Germany, he recorded works by Bob Brookmeyer and Jim McNeely with Mel Lewis on drums. During this time, he recorded with saxophonist Loren Schoenberg and pianist Django Bates.<ref name="interview2" /> Later that year, Ingram joined the orchestra of Maynard Ferguson and recorded three albums with him. In October 2004, he performed as a featured artist at Stratospheric, a four-day festival honoring Ferguson. In September 2006, he performed as a featured soloist at the Maynard Ferguson Tribute Concert in St. Louis, Missouri, with many other trumpeters, including his long-time friend and colleague Wayne Bergeron.<ref>The Maynard Ferguson Tribute Concert Program, 2006.</ref>
After three years as lead trumpeter for Ferguson, he moved to Florida, where he was a teaching assistant and private instructor at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. While in Miami, he collaborated with his friend and colleague, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, recording the Grammy Award-winning album, ''Danzon''.<ref>Liner notes from CD ''Danzon''</ref> He also did commercial recording work, performed and toured with the New Xavier Cugat Orchestra, and worked on a consistent basis with the Peter Graves Orchestra.<ref name="interview1" />
===With Harry Connick Jr. and Lincoln Center=== In 1990, Ingram joined the newly formed big band of pianist Harry Connick Jr. He recorded three albums with Connick, working with him until the orchestra disbanded in 1993. The following year, he toured with singer Frank Sinatra. Later in 1994, he moved to New York City, joining Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He recorded three albums with Wynton Marsalis, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''Blood on the Fields''.
Ingram left Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1997 to tour and record with Ray Charles for two years. After touring with singer-songwriter Paul Anka, he joined the re-formed Harry Connick Jr. Big Band in 1998 and recorded the Grammy-nominated album ''Come by Me''. In April 2000, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave that album a gold record certification. In the summer of 2001, he toured with the Count Basie Orchestra, returning to tour with Connick in November. Ingram has appeared on several of Connick's albums, including ''Blue Light, Red Light'', ''When My Heart Finds Christmas'', ''Songs I Heard'', ''Harry for the Holidays'', ''Thou Shalt Not'', ''Chanson du Vieux Carre'', ''Oh My NOLA'', and ''What a Night! A Christmas Album''.
===Broadway and festivals=== While living in New York, Ingram performed in a freelance capacity in more than twenty Broadway productions, including ''Chicago'', ''Grease'', ''Cats'', ''Les Misérables'', and ''The Producers''. In addition, he played trumpet for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre and serving as the principal trumpeter in the Broadway shows and cast albums of ''Thou Shalt Not'', ''The Pajama Game'', and ''Harry on Broadway, Act 1''.<ref name="harry">{{cite web |title=Harry On Broadway, Act 1 |url=https://www.harryconnickjr.com/music/harry-broadway-act-1 |website=www.harryconnickjr.com |accessdate=10 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Willis">{{cite book |last1=Willis |first1=John |last2=Lynch |first2=Tom |title=Theatre World 1990–1991, Vol. 47 |date=1992 |publisher=Hal Leonard |page=18}}</ref><ref name="yearbook">{{cite book |last1=Viagas |first1=Robert |last2=Reuben |first2=Aubrey |last3=Strothmann |first3=Ben |title=The Playbill Broadway Yearbook: June 2005–May 2006 |date=2006 |publisher=Hal Leonard |page=283}}</ref><ref name="Jenkins">{{cite book |last1=Jenkins |first1=Jeffrey Eric |title=The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2005–2006 |date=2006 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |pages=168, 493}}</ref>
===Instrument design=== In 2009, Ingram designed a B♭ trumpet for the Jupiter Band Instrument Company. This trumpet is the XO Series 1600I model, known as the I-horn, and is the trumpet he uses exclusively. He also performs with the Jupiter XO Series professional flugelhorn and the Jupiter XO Series professional 4-valve B-flat/A piccolo trumpet (Jupiter 1700RS). For fun, he also plays the Jupiter 528L valve trombone.<ref name="interview2"/>
From 2011 to 2014, manufactured by Pickett Brass of Lexington Kentucky, Ingram's line of six professional mouthpieces for B-flat trumpet (the V-cup, the Lead, the Studio, the Jazz, the Be-Bop, and the Instant Chet) arrived on the market. Two additional models (the Lead-2 and Studio-2) were added in 2016.<ref>[http://onetootree.com/Products.html One Too Tree Publishing and Products]</ref><ref>[http://www.pickettbrass.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=107_115_200&products_id=652 PickettBrass.com]</ref>
A line of classic mutes designed by Ingram and manufactured by Warburton USA<ref>[http://www.warburton-usa.com/index.php/ingram-mutemeister-mutes Warburton USA]</ref> was launched at the Midwest Clinic in December 2016.<ref>Seventieth Annual Midwest Clinic 2016 Program, pp 40-41</ref> These accessories for trumpet and cornet are the Ingram-MuteMeister Cup, ShowTone, and Straight mutes.<ref>[http://mutemeister.com/index.html MuteMeister]</ref>
===Solo work and writing=== Ingram's debut solo album, ''Roger Ingram Live at the College Hideaway'', was released and reviewed in 2014.<ref name="Mondello">{{cite web |last1=Mondello |first1=Nicholas F. |title=Roger Ingram Live at the College Hideaway with the Jim Stewart Orchestra |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/roger-ingram-live-at-the-college-hideaway-with-the-jim-stewart-orchestra-roger-ingram-one-too-tree-review-by-nicholas-f-mondello.php |website=All About Jazz |accessdate=10 September 2018 |date=19 November 2014}}</ref> His second album, ''Skylark'', was released in 2015. Both were on his ''One Too Tree Records'' label.
In February 2010, after 36 years, he "retired" from the tour bus and being a sideman. Since 2005, he has been an Artist in Residence of the Music Conservatory at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.<ref name="interview1" />
Ingram's textbook, ''Clinical Notes on Trumpet Playing'', was published in 2008. In December 2015, Ingram wrote his first article for ''The Brass Herald'' and became a regular columnist for the magazine.<ref>''The Brass Herald - The Magazine for the Brass Musician''. Retrieved 20 November 2016.</ref>
==Awards and honors== * Runner-up (2nd place) Trumpet, ''Down Beat'' 81st Annual Readers Poll, 2016<ref>Dec 2016 issue ''DownBeat''</ref> * Induction into Kentucky Museum Instruments of American Excellence Collection, 2012 * Lead trumpet on two Grammy winning recordings: ''Songs I Heard'' (Columbia/Sony) by Harry Connick, Jr. and ''Danzón'' (Milan) by Arturo Sandoval * Lead trumpet on five Grammy nominated recordings: ''Your Songs'' (Sony) and ''Come by Me'' (Sony) by Harry Connick, Jr.; ''50th Anniversary Tour'' (Concord), ''Woody's Gold Star'' (Concord), and ''The Concord Years'' (Concord) by Woody Herman * Lead trumpet on the Pulitzer Prize winning recording, ''Blood on the Fields'' (Sony) by Wynton Marsalis * Lead trumpet ''Thou Shalt Not'', two nominations, Tony Awards, 2002 * Lead trumpet ''The Pajama Game'', nine nominations and two wins, Tony Awards, 2006
==Discography== '''As leader''' * 2014 ''Roger Ingram Live at the College Hideaway'' (One Too Tree) * 2015 ''Skylark'' (One Too Tree)
'''As sideman'''
'''With Harry Connick, Jr.''' * 1991 ''Blue Light, Red Light'' (Sony) * 1992 ''Swing Time'' (Sony) * 1993 ''Forever for Now'' (Sony) * 1993 ''France, I Wish You Love'' (Sony) * 1993 ''When My Heart Finds Christmas'' (Sony) * 1999 ''Come By Me'' (Sony) * 2001 ''Songs I Heard'' (Sony) * 2002 ''Thou Shalt Not'' (Sony) * 2006 ''Harry on Broadway, Act I'' (Sony) * 2007 ''All These People'' (Sony) * 2007 ''Chanson du Vieux Carré'' (Sony) * 2007 ''Oh My NOLA'' (Sony) * 2003 ''Harry for the Holidays'' (Sony) * 2004 ''Only You'' (Sony) * 2008 ''What a Night! A Christmas Album'' (Sony) * 2009 ''Your Songs'' (Sony)
'''With Maynard Ferguson''' * 1988 ''Big Bop Nouveau'' (Intima) * 1992 ''Footpath Café'' (Avion) * 1993 ''Live from London'' (Avenue)
'''With Woody Herman''' * 1986 ''50th Anniversary Tour'' (Concord) * 1987 ''Ebony'' (RCA) * 1987 ''Woody's Gold Star'' (Concord) * 2003 ''Live at Fitzgeralds'' (Big Head)
'''With Wynton Marsalis''' * 1994 ''They Came to Swing, Jazz at Lincoln Center'' (Sony) * 1995 ''Blood on the Fields'' (Sony) * 1999 ''Reeltime'' (Sony) * 1999 ''Sweet Release and Ghost Story'' (Sony) * 2011 ''Selections from Swinging into the 21st'' (Sony) * 2012 ''Music of America'' (Sony) * 2012 ''Swinging Into the 21st'' (Sony Legacy) * 2013 ''The Spiritual Side of Wynton Marsalis'' (Sony)
'''With others''' * 1985 ''The Spirit of Christmas'' (Columbia), Ray Charles * 1986 ''Live at Newport and at the Hollywood Bowl, July 1986'', (Jazz Band), Stan Getz * 1988 ''Conducting in the Stan Kenton Style'' (Klavier), Al Yankee * 1988 ''The Best of Bill Medley'' (MCA), Bill Medley * 1989 ''Sophisticated Lady'' (Sea Breeze), Frank Mantooth * 1990 ''Dangerous Precedent'' (Sea Breeze), Frank Mantooth * 1991 ''Simply Mad About the Mouse'' (Sony), Various Artists * 1994 ''I Was Born in Love with You'' (Blue Note), Denise Jannah * 1994 ''Lip Trip'' (Mean Bugle), Jim Manley * 1994 ''The Kush:Music of Dizzy Gillespie'' (Heads Up), Richie Cole * 1994 ''The Sound:A Tribute to Stan Getz'', Billy Ross * 1994 ''To Ella With Love'' (Shanachie), Ann Hampton Callaway * 1996 ''Danzon (Dance On)'' (Milan), Arturo Sandoval * 1996 ''Heart of a Legend'' (Milestone), Chico O'Farrill * 1996 ''Slender, Tender and Tall'' (Panda Digital), Jo Thompson * 2000 ''Live...and Swinging'' (PANKA), Paul Anka * 2003 ''Home of My Heart'' (Origin), Chris Walden * 2003 ''Please Send Me Someone to Love'' (Stanson), Sonny Craver with the Pat Longo Big Band * 2004 ''The Minute Game'' (Summit), Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra West * 2005 ''Taking the Long Way Home'' (Jazzed Media), Bud Shank * 2005 ''Robots'' Soundtrack, (Virgin), John Powell * 2007 ''Hommage'' (Jazzed Media), Bill Holman * 2008 ''The Baecker Jazz Worship Service'' (John Cooper Music), John Cooper * 2009 ''You Ought to Be Havin' Fun'' (Rob Zappulla Music) * 2010 ''Blueprints'' (Chicago Sessions), Chicago Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble * 2012 ''There's Nothing Like Christmas'' (Jimmy Stewart Productions), Jimmy Stewart * 2012 ''We'll be Together Again'' (Jazztech), Rob Parton Big Band * 2013 ''Christmas Time is Here'' (Jazztech), Rob Parton Big Band * 2016 ''Waltz About Nothing'' (OA2), New Standard Jazz Orchestra *2019 ''Midnight Stroll'' (CH.ILL. Jazz), Joshua Jern Jazz Orchestra
==Filmography== '''Harry Connick Jr.''' * 1990 ''Swinging Out Live'', Sony (DVD) * 1991 ''Blue Light, Red Light'', Columbia (Music Video – soundtrack recording) * 1992 ''You Didn't Know Me When'', Columbia (Music Video – soundtrack recording, film appearance) * 1993 ''The New York Big Band Concert'', (Video) * 1993 ''The Harry Connick Jr. Christmas Special'' * 1994 ''Sleigh Ride'', Columbia (Music Video – soundtrack recording) * 1994 ''The Harry Connick Jr. Christmas Special'' (video) * 1999 ''Come By Me'' Columbia (Music Video – soundtrack recording) * 2003 ''Harry for the Holidays'' * 2004 ''Only You: In Concert'' * 2005 ''The Happy Elf'', Columbia (film, soundtrack recording) * 2007 ''All These People'', Columbia (music video – soundtrack recording) * 2009 ''All the Way'', Sony (Music Video – soundtrack recording, film appearance) * 2009 ''Close to You'', Sony (Music Video – soundtrack recording, film appearance)
'''Others''' * 1976 ''Edmonton 'In Concert' Series'' – ITV, w/Connie Stevens * 1980 ''Knott's Berry Farm'', (TV special) w/Tom Jones * 1981 ''Tom Jones Live in Las Vegas 1981'', w/Tom Jones * 1989 ''Cameron's Closet'', Sony Pictures (soundtrack recording) released on DVD 2004 * 1997 ''Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival'', Pioneer, (DVD) Ray Charles * 1999 ''Music My Way'', Sony (DVD) – Paul Anka * 2001 ''Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival'', Sony (DVD) – Paul Anka * 2005 ''Robots'', 20th Century Fox (Film – soundtrack recording) * 2006 ''Maynard Ferguson Tribute'', Contemporary (DVD – soundtrack recording, film appearance)
==References== * Cook, Richard and Morton, Brian. ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette: First Edition'', Penguin, 1992. * Cook, Richard and Morton, Brian. ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD''. Penguin, 2002. * Everet, Carole J. ''Peterson's College Guide for Performing Arts Majors''. Peterson's, 2007, p. 301. * Kriebel, Robert C. ''Blue Flame: Woody Herman's Life in Music''. Purdue University Press, 1995. * Lee III, William F. ''MF Horn: Maynard Ferguson's Life in Music, The Authorized Biography''. Maynard Ferguson USA, 1997. * Lord, Tom. ''The Jazz Discography''. Lord Music Reference, 1995. * Urso, Joe. ''The Upper Register''. Joe Urso, 1999. * Yanow, Scott. ''Jazz on Film''. Backbeat Books, 2004.
===Footnotes=== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.rogeringram.com/ Official website] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090106000341/http://newjazzhorizons.com/news.html Review of ''Clinical Notes on Trumpet Playing''] * [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/roger-ingram-mn0000082530 Listing at AllMusic]
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