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Bob Merrill

BOB MERRILL is noted for his engaging vocal style, combined with great talent as a Jazz trumpeter, pianist, arranger and bandleader. His music has been heard around the world – at clubs and in concerts, in films and on television, and on recordings as a leader and sideman. Born and raised in Manhattan, he studied with Red Rodney as a teenager. While in college, Bob led the Harvard Jazz Band, performing regularly around New England and touring with them overseas. While earning his degree in music at Harvard, he also attended New England Conservatory, studying and performing with legendary pianist Jaki Byard and his Apollo Stompers Big Band

2021: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
December 31, 2021

The jazz world continued grappling and adjusting in year two of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Jazz Day again went virtual for the most part. Singer Tony Bennett put the final stamp on his touring--and likely recording--career after his Alzheimer's disclosure. Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield was headed to federal prison. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four ...

Tell Me Your Troubles – Songs by Joe Bushkin, Volume 1

By Bob Merrill

Label: Accurate Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Frank Sinatra Remembers Joe; Oh Look at Me Now; There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin; Wise to Myself; Girl Wanted; Goin’ Back to Storeyville; Tell Me Your Troubles; Lovely Weather; Something Wonderful Happens in Summer; Man Here Plays Fine Piano; Boogie Woogie Blue Plate; Red Buttons Remembers Joe.

Tell Me Your Troubles: Songs by Joe Bushkin

By Bob Merrill

Label: Accurate Records
Released: 2017

Bob Merrill: Tell Me Your Troubles – Songs by Joe Bushkin, Volume 1

by C. Michael Bailey
July 26, 2017

There are several arcs of history and experience intersecting on Bob Merrill's Tell Me Your Troubles--Songs by Joe Bushkin, Volume 1. The first is that of Joe Bushkin (1961--2004). Bushkin was a swing era pianist and composer best known for his association with trumpeter Bunny Berigan's band, guitarist Eddie Condon, Max Kaminsky, Joe Marsala, and Muggsy ...

Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz Presents The Joe Bushkin Centennial at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 4

April 29, 2017

Jack Kleinsinger’s Highlights In Jazz, New York’s longest running jazz concert series, concludes its record breaking 45th season at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York City, with The Joe Bushkin Centennial concert, celebrating the rich musical legacy ...

Trumpeter/Vocalist Bob Merrill Celebrates The Musical Legacy Of Pianist/Songwriter Joe Bushkin With "Tell Me Your Troubles: Songs By Joe Bushkin, Vol. 1," Due May 19 From Accurate Records

April 24, 2017

Coinciding with the centennial of pianist/composer Joe Bushkin’s birth, the release on May 19 by trumpeter and singer Bob Merrill of Tell Me Your Troubles: Songs by Joe Bushkin, Vol. 1 (Accurate Records) celebrates the musical legacy of a man who was revered by many of America’s foremost entertainers for his wizardry at the keyboard and ...

Cheerin’ Up the Universe

By Bob Merrill

Label: Accurate Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Cheerin’ Up the Universe; What the World Needs Now; The Secret O’Life; Glad; Political Science (Let’s Drop the Big One); Somewhere; Compared to What; Imagine; I Say a Little Prayer; Feelin’ Groovy; Overjoyed; Happiness; the Creator has a Master Plan; Happy; IGY (What a Wonderful World); I’m So Tired.

Bob Merrill: Cheerin’ Up the Universe

by C. Michael Bailey
September 7, 2015

Jazz as an art form is not noted for a particularly sunny disposition. Trumpeter and vocalist Bob Merrill dispenses with this prejudice in his opening original title composition of Cheerin' Up the Universe, his fourth recording. From the outset, this recital is going to be a positive, affirming musical experience sans the saccharine sentimentality projects like ...

"Cheerin' Up The Universe," New CD By Trumpeter/Vocalist Bob Merrill, Due For Sept. 4 Release By Accurate Records

August 20, 2015

Trumpeter/vocalist Bob Merrill has had an amazingly varied career in and around music—mentored by his late father-in-law Joe Bushkin, Jaki Byard, and Red Rodney; starting and operating Hip Pocket Recording Studios in jny: New York City; and recording as a leader himself. Cheerin’ Up the Universe, his new CD and fourth to date, is being released ...