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An excellent hard bop trumpeter,
Cecil Bridgewater has been the longtime trumpeter with
the Max Roach Quartet. After studying music at the University of Illinois, he teamed up with tenorman
Ron Bridgewater in the Bridgewater Brothers Band (1969). He was married to singer
Dee Dee Garrett (aka
Dee Dee Bridgewater) for part of the 1970s. In 1970, the trumpeter was with
Horace Silver, and then he worked with the
Thad Jones/
Mel Lewis orchestra (1970-1976).
Cecil Bridgewater started playing with
Max Roach in the early '70s, and was a key part of his groups ever since. He recorded his long overdue debut as a leader on a Bluemoon disc in 1993. ~ Scott Yanow