Bob Ojeda (musician)
American jazz trumpeter and composer
Robert Ojeda (September 1, 1941 – March 26, 2020) was an American jazz trumpeter.
Career
Ojeda grew up in Chicago, where he went to jazz clubs as a teenager. By the time he was 15, he and a friend were leading a neighborhood band, for which he was already orchestrating and arranging. At 18 he played in Stan Kenton's orchestra, and in the following years with Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Ralph Marterie and Les Elgart. In the second half of the 1960s he was involved in recordings by Bunky Green, and Joe Morello in Chicago. He has also appeared on the TV shows The Tonight Show and The Midnight Special. In the following years he belonged to the Les Hooper Big Band. He has also worked with Hank Jones, Lionel Hampton, and The Manhattan Transfer. In 1975 he played with The Rolling Stones.
As a member of the Count Basie Orchestra, to which Ojeda belonged from 1985 to 2002, he accompanied the singer Caterina Valente in 1985-86.
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