Bob Rockwell is a jazz

Jazz

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 saxophonist

Saxophone

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. He was born in the United States

United States

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 but emigrated to Denmark

Denmark

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 in 1983, where he has lived since.

Biography

Rockwell was raised in Minneapolis, and in his early career he toured the U.S. in various rock and R&B bands. He worked in Las Vegas

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 in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then moved to New York City

New York City

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, where played with Thad Jones

Thad Jones

Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.-Biography:Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten . Thad Jones was a self taught musician, performing professionally by the age of sixteen...

 and Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis

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, Tito Puente

Tito Puente

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, Ben Sidran

Ben Sidran

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, Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard

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, Ray Drummond

Ray Drummond

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, Billy Hart

Billy Hart

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, Rufus Reid

Rufus Reid

Rufus Reid is an American jazz bassist, educator, and composer. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.-Personal history:...

, Victor Lewis

Victor Lewis

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, Ron McClure

Ron McClure

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, Tom Harrell

Tom Harrell

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, Chuck Israels

Chuck Israels

Charles H. "Chuck" Israels is a composer, arranger, and bassist who is best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. He has also worked with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, J. J. Johnson, John Coltrane and many others.-Biography:Chuck Israels was...

, John Hicks

John Hicks

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, Al Foster

Al Foster

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, Anthony Cox

Anthony Cox (musician)

Anthony Cox is an American jazz bass player.Played with: Geri Allen, Dewey Redman, Dave Douglas, John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Gary Thomas, Marty Ehrlich, Ed Blackwell, Joe Lovano, Dave King, and others.Lives and plays in Minnesota....

, Bill Dobbins

Bill Dobbins

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, Keith Copeland

Keith Copeland

Keith Copeland is a jazz drummer and music educator.- As a musician :His father Ray Copeland was a jazz trumpet player, and he learned some by watching him, but he decided to go into drums after study's Art Blakey's records with The Jazz Messengers. In his teens he was sitting in with Barry...

, Clint Houston

Clint Houston

Clinton Joseph Houston was an American jazz double-bassist.Houston played with George Cables and Lenny White in the house band at Slugs, a club in New York City, then played with Nina Simone , Roy Haynes , Sonny Greenwich and Don Thompson , Roy Ayers , Charles Tolliver , Stan Getz , and Woody Shaw...

, and Richie Beirach

Richie Beirach

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.

After settling in Copenhagen

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, Rockwell released a large number of albums on jazz label SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records

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. He has also worked in Europe with Ernie Wilkins

Ernie Wilkins

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, Kenny Drew

Kenny Drew

Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington...

, Alex Riel

Alex Riel

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, Marilyn Mazur

Marilyn Mazur

Marilyn Mazur is a percussionist, drummer, composer, vocalist, pianist, dancer and bandleader. She was born in New York and has lived in Denmark from age six. She is of Polish and African-American descent. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with...

, Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC is a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. since the 1950s....

, Jan Kasperson, and Jesper Lungaard.

Discography

• Androids (Celebration Records, 1974)
• No Rush (SteepleChase Records
  SteepleChase Records
  SteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time...
  
  , 1985)
• On the Natch (SteepleChase, 1985)
• The Bob Rockwell Trio (SteepleChase, 1989)
• Reconstruction (SteepleChase, 1990)
• Trio (SteepleChase, 1990)
• Born to Be Blue (SteepleChase, 1994)
• Light Blue (SteepleChase, 1995)
• Shades of Blue (SteepleChase, 1996)
• After Hours (Go Jazz, 1999)
• It's All Right With Me (Pony Canyon
  Pony Canyon
  is a Japanese company, established on October 1, 1966 , which publishes music, DVD and VHS videos, movies and video games. It is a subsidiary of Japanese Media Group, Fujisankei Communications Group.-History:...
  
  , 2001)
• Love Eyes (Pony Canyon, 2001)
• Bob's Wilder: Music of Alec Wilder (Stunt Records
  Stunt Records
  Stunt Records is an independent record label formed in 1990 by Daniel Amos, Terry Scott Taylor and Tom Gulotta.The original intent of the label was to focus on reissues and special releases by D.A., but soon, the label was releasing CDs by a variety of artists including two Various Artists...
  
  , 2003)
• Bob's Ben: A Salute to Ben Webster (Stunt, 2005)