Stacy Rowles

{{short description|American jazz musician}} '''Stacy Amanda Rowles''' (September 11, 1955 in Los Angeles – October 30, 2009 in Burbank, California) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and vocalist. She was the daughter of Jimmy Rowles.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Thursby |first=Keith |date=2009-11-08 |title=Stacy Rowles dies at 54; jazz trumpet and fluegelhorn player |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-stacy-rowles8-2009nov08-story.html |access-date=2026-04-18 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Owens |first=Thomas |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz: Volume One A-Fuzz |date= |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-56159-284-5 |editor-last=Kernfeld |editor-first=Barry Dean |edition=2nd |location=Oxford}}</ref>

Rowles learned piano and percussion in her youth before settling on trumpet, which she studied with Charlie Shoemake.<ref name=":4" /> She played alongside her father at the 1973 Monterey Jazz Festival and played with Clark Terry's all-female big band in 1975.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Yanow |first=Scott |title=The trumpet kings: the players who shaped the sound of jazz trumpet |date= |publisher=Backbeat Books |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-87930-640-3 |location=San Francisco, CA |pages=319}}</ref> She also worked with the all-female quintet the ''Jazzbirds'', led by Betty O'Hara, as well as the ''Jazz Tap Ensemble, Maiden Voyage'' and the ''DIVA Big Band''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Jackson |first=Grant |date=2013-03-08 |title=Stacy Rowles On Piano Jazz |url=https://www.npr.org/2010/03/05/124319378/stacy-rowles-remembered-on-piano-jazz |access-date=2026-04-18 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> She played with Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Mergner |first=Lee |date=2024-05-20 |title=Trumpeter Stacy Rowles Dies at 54 |url=https://jazztimes.com/features/tributes-and-obituaries/trumpeter-stacy-rowles-dies-at-54/ |access-date=2026-04-18 |website=JazzTimes |language=en-US}}</ref>

She appeared on NPR's Piano Jazz with Marian McPartland in 2001.<ref name=":2" /> She died from complications in an automobile accident in 2009.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |date=2009-11-07 |title=Stacy Rowles, Jazz Musician, Is Dead at 54 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/arts/music/07rowles.html |access-date=2026-04-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

== Discography == Main Source: Allmuisc<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stacy Rowles Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & Mor... |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/stacy-rowles-mn0001164172 |access-date=2026-04-18 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" />

'''As Leader'''

* ''Tell It Like It Is'' (Concord Jazz, 1984)

'''With Jimmy Rowles'''

* ''Looking Back'' (Delos, 1988) * ''Me and the Moon'' (American Jazz Symposium, 1993) '''With Ben Sluijs'''

* ''Till Next Time'' (September, 1991)

'''As Guest'''

* Nels Cline, ''Angelica'' (Enja Records,1988) * Norma Winstone, ''Well Kept Secret'' (Hot House, 1995)

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