Name	Roger L. Mobley
Birth date	January 16, 1949
Birth place	Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, USA
Occupation	Christian pastor; businessman; child actor
Yearsactive	Actor, 1957-1968; 1979
Spouse
Children	Matthew Jason Mobley
Residence	Newton, Newton County, Texas, USA
Website	Official website

Roger L. Mobley (born January 16, 1949) in Evansville, Indiana, is a former child actor in film and television, working primarily for Walt Disney Productions during the late 1950s and early '1960s. He became a Christian pastor, serving in southeast Texas.

When Mobley was eight years old, he appeared as a regular on the NBC series Fury, starring Peter Graves, Bobby Diamond, and William Fawcett. Mobley played Homer "Packy" Lambert, friend to Diamond's character, Joey Clark Newton. The program was set at the fictional Broken Wheel Ranch in California.

Personal life

Mobley was one of eight children who could sing and play musical instruments. He was the son of Arthur and Charlene Mobley. Mobley's father was a native of Centralia, Illinois. The family moved in the early 1950s to Pecos in Reeves County, Texas, before relocating to Whittier in southern California.

Mobley graduated from Whittier Christian High School, where he played football. On June 7, 1968, Mobley married his high school sweetheart, Sharie Barclay, whom he met in the eighth grade. The couple has at least one son, Matthew Jason Mobley.

Military background

In 1968, Mobley joined the United States Army and trained at the United States Army Airborne School. He was assigned to the Green Berets, and served a year with the 46th Special Forces Company in South Vietnam.

Civic service

After two years and seven months of military service, Mobley returned to California. He later moved to Vidor near Beaumont, Texas, where his parents were then living. He became a police officer and detective in Beaumont. He also worked as a police officer in Vidor and Jasper, Texas. At the time of his father's death, Mobley was living in Milam, Texas.

Mobley has worked in many kinds of blue collar jobs, including pipefitter, like his father; longshoreman; welder; bull rider; lumberjack; milk delivery; Federal Express truck driver; prison guard; and lifeguard. He was a football/basketball coach at a private school in Beaumont and the pastor of several country churches in southeast Texas. In addition to his pastorate, Mobley has worked as an inspector for a company that installs wind turbines nationwide.

Professional background

At the age of three, Roger and an older brother and sister formed a musical trio. The children performed at fairs and carnivals and also appeared on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour, at the time on NBC. Leon Fromkess, a talent scout, spotted Roger and signed him up to appear on ABC's Cheyenne western series starring Clint Walker. He also appeared in an episode of the NBC children's western Buckskin starring Tommy Nolan and Sally Brophy, originally a summer replacement for The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. Mobley then joined the Fury cast in a regular role from 1957-1960. None of Mobley's siblings went into show business.

When he joined the Disney studio, Mobley had already appeared in several television westerns and low-budget films. He starred for three seasons on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color in a recurring role as the amateur sleuth newspaper reporter Gallegher, a character created by author Richard Harding Davis. He appeared in several studio films, including Emil and the Detectives in 1964.

In 1979, when Mobley turned thirty, he moved his family from Texas to Hollywood to attempt an acting comeback, with little success outside of a minor role in the Disney film, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.

Filmography

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)

For the Love of Willadean (1964)

The Mystery of Edward Sims (1968)

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef (1968)

Emil and the Detectives (1964)

The Tenderfoot (1964)

Gallegher (1964–1967)

Dime with a Halo (1963)

Jack the Giant Killer (1962)

The Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961)

The Comancheros (1961)

The Silent Call (1961)

A Dog's Best Friend (1959)

The Runaway (1962)

Television appearances

Wagon Train

Cheyenne

Our Man Higgins

Destry

Empire

The Outlaws

Going My Way

The Farmer's Daughter

Route 66

Frontier Circus

Gunsmoke

National Velvet

The Virginian

Dragnet

The Wide Country

Dr. Kildare

Death Valley Days

The Law and Mr. Jones

References

External links

Roger Mobley Official Website

Category:1949 births Category:American actors Category:American child actors Category:Western (genre) film actors Category:American television actors Category:American musicians Category:American military personnel of the Vietnam War Category:United States Army soldiers Category:People from the Greater Los Angeles Area Category:People from Evansville, Indiana Category:People from Beaumont, Texas Category:People from Texas Category:American clergy Category:American Methodists Category:American businesspeople Category:Living people

Name	Will Hutchins
Caption	Hutchins starring as Tom "Sugarfoot" Brewster
Birthdate	May 05, 1930
Birthplace	Los Angeles, California
Spouse	His former wife, Chrissie, is the sister of actress/comedian Carol Burnett.
Awards	Golden Boot Awards (2002)Stone-Waterman Award (2004) - Cincinnati Old Time Radio Convention

Will Hutchins (born May 5, 1930) is an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer Tom Brewster in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot on ABC from 1957-1961.

Biography

Hutch, as he prefers to be known, was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended Pomona College in Claremont, where he majored in Greek drama. He also studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he took cinema classes. He served two years in the U.S. Army as a cryptographer in Paris, France serving with SHAPE.

In 1966-1967, he costarred with Sandy Baron in an NBC sitcom Hey, Landlord set in a New York City apartment building. The program followed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, but it failed to attract a sustaining audience against CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show and ABC's The F.B.I. with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., his former Warner Brothers colleague. Following that he appeared as Patches the Clown in Ashton's Circus in Australia.

He currently lives in Long Island, NY with his second wife Barbara, and contributes articles to the online website Western Clippings, created and managed by Boyd Magers.

Other major appearances: 1966, Spinout (film). Hutch co-starred as Lt. Tracy Richards with racecar driver/singer Elvis Presley. 1966, The Shooting (film). Monte Hellman's low-budget Western with Jack Nicholson and Warren Oates. 1967, Clambake (film). Hutch co-stars alongside Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, and Bill Bixby. 1968-1969, starred as Dagwood Bumstead in a TV version of the comic strip Blondie. 1970, ''Shangani Patrol (film). Co-starred as the American Scout Frederick Burnham in a film based on the actual events of the Shangani Patrol, shot on location in Rhodesia.

1976, The Quest in a short-live NBC western starring Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson

1998, Gunfighter (film). A modern Western directed by Christopher Coppola. Also stars: Robert Carradine, Clu Gulager, and Martin Sheen.

References

External links

Western Clippings Website

Category:1930 births Category:American television actors Category:Living people Category:Pomona College alumni Category:People from the Greater Los Angeles Area

Roger Humphries (born January 30, 1944) is an American jazz drummer.

Born into a family of ten children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Humphries began playing drums at age four, and went professional at age 14. He led an ensemble at Carnegie Hall at age 16. Early in the 1960s, he began touring with jazz musicians; one of his more prominent gigs was in a trio with Stanley Turrentine and Shirley Scott in 1962. In 1964, he played with Horace Silver, including on the album Song for My Father, where he plays on side 1 (Roy Brooks drums on side 2). Following this Humphries drummed for Ray Charles.

Humphries's list of credits in jazz, R&B;, and pop is extensive. Musicians he has played with, in addition to the above, include Lee Morgan, Grant Green, Billy Taylor, Bill Doggett, Benny Green, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Barry Harris, Clark Terry, J. J. Johnson, Billy Preston, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack McDuff, Gene Harris, George Harris, George Benson, Jon Faddis, Slide Hampton, Johnny Griffin, Herbie Mann, Randy Brecker, Joe Williams, Milt Jackson, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Humphries led his own band in the early 1970s, R.H. Factor, and led ensembles under other names into the 1990s. He has also held teaching positions at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. He released albums under his own name in 1993 and 2003.

Discography

Horace Silver Live 1964 (Emerald, 1964)

Horace Silver Song for my father (Blue Note, 1964)

Carmell Jones Jay Hawk talk (Prestige, 1965)

Horace Silver Cape Verdean blues (Blue Note, 1965)

Horace Silver The Jody Grind (Blue Note, 1966)

Frank Cunimondo Trio Introducing Lynn Marino (Mondo, 1969)

Nathan Davis Makatuka (Segue, 1971)

Dwayne Dolphin Portrait of Adrian (Minor Music, 1993)

Jimmy Ponder Something to ponder (Muse, 1994)

Steve Rudolph Everything I love (R&L; Jazz, 1995)

Al Dowe & Etta Cox Sunday Jam (1996)

Roger Humphries Big Band Don't give up (2003)

Bill Heid Air mobile (Doodlin', 2006)

References

External links

Official website

Category:American jazz drummers Category:Musicians from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Category:1944 births Category:Living people

Name	Horace Silver
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva
Born	September 02, 1928
Origin	Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.
Instrument	Piano
Genre	Post bopModal jazzMainstream jazzSoul jazzJazz fusionHard bop
Occupation	PianistComposerBandleader
Associated acts	Horace Silver QuintetHorace Silver TrioArt Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Horace Silver (born September 2, 1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer.

Early life and career

His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio in Cape Verde. His mother was born in New Canaan, Connecticut and was of Irish-African descent.

Silver began his career as a tenor saxophonist but later switched to piano. His tenor saxophone playing was highly influenced by Lester Young, and his piano style by Bud Powell. Silver was discovered in the Sundown Club in Hartford, Connecticut in 1950 by saxophonist Stan Getz. Getz was playing at the club with Silver’s trio backing him up. Getz liked Silver’s band and brought them on the road, eventually recording three of Silver’s compositions. It was with Getz that Silver made his recording debut.

He moved to New York City in 1951, where he worked at the jazz club Birdland on Monday nights, when different musicians would come together and informally jam. During that year he met the executives of the label Blue Note while working as a sideman. He eventually signed with them where he remained until 1980. It was in New York that he formed The Jazz Messengers, a co-operatively run group with Art Blakey.

In 1952 and 1953 he recorded three sessions with his own trio, featuring Blakey on drums and Gene Ramey, Curly Russell and Percy Heath on bass. The drummer-pianist team lasted for four years; during this time, Silver and Blakey recorded at Birdland (A Night at Birdland Vol. 1) with Russell, Clifford Brown and Lou Donaldson, at the Bohemia with Kenny Dorham and Hank Mobley, and also in the studios. He was also a member of the Miles Davis All Stars, recording the crucial Walkin' in 1954.

Blue Note years

From 1956 onwards, Silver recorded exclusively for the Blue Note label, eventually becoming close to label boss Alfred Lion who allowed him greater input on aspects of album production than was usual at the time. During his years with Blue Note, Silver helped to create the rhythmically forceful branch of jazz known as "hard bop", which combined elements of rhythm-and-blues and gospel music with jazz. Gospel elements are particularly prominent on one of his biggest hits, "The Preacher", which Lion thought corny, but Silver persuaded him to record it.

While Silver's compositions at this time featured surprising tempo shifts and a range of melodic ideas, they caught the attention of a wide audience. Silver's own piano playing easily shifted from aggressively percussive to lushly romantic within just a few bars. At the same time, his sharp use of repetition was funky even before that word could be used in polite company. Along with Silver's own work, his bands often featured such rising jazz stars as saxophonists Junior Cook and Hank Mobley, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, and drummer Louis Hayes. Some of his key albums from this period included Horace Silver Trio (1953), Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1955), 6 Pieces of Silver (1956) and Blowin' the Blues Away (1959), which includes his famous, "Sister Sadie." He also combined jazz with a sassy take on pop through the 1961 hit, "Filthy McNasty".

Influences

Silver tended not to play up that he was proficient in Portuguese, nor draw directly on his rich Lusophone musical upbringing. His 1965 hit, "Cape Verdean Blues," is the only clear rhythmic reference to his childhood home where his father and friends jammed, with traditional Capeverdean morna and coladeira as the main fare. In the interview for the liner notes to 1964's Song for My Father (Cantiga Para Meu Pai), however, Silver remarked of the title track, "This tune is an original of mine, but it has a flavor of it that makes me think of my childhood days. Some of the family, including my father and my uncle, used to have musical parties with three or four stringed instruments; my father played violin and guitar. Those were happy, informal sessions." Silver melded additional Lusophone influences into his music directly after his February 1964 tour of Brazil. Referring to "Song for My Father," Silver said, "I was very much impressed by the authentic bossa nova beat. Not just the monotonous tick-tick-tick, tick-tick, the way it's usually done, but the real bossa nova feeling, which I've tried to incorporate into this number."

His early influences included the styles of boogie-woogie and the blues. It includes but is not limited to Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Nat “King” Cole, and Thelonious Monk. He liked to quote other musicians within his own work and would often recreate famous solos in his original pieces as something of a tribute to the greats who influenced him.

During Silver's time with Blakey he rarely recorded as a leader, but after splitting with him in 1956, formed his own hard bop quintet at first featuring the same line-up as Blakey's Jazz Messengers with 18-year-old Louis Hayes substituting for Blakey. The quintet's more enduring line-up featured Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook.

In 1963 Silver created a new group featuring Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone and Carmell Jones on trumpet; this quintet recorded most of Silver's best-known album Song for My Father. When Jones left to settle in Europe, the trumpet chair was filled by a young Woody Shaw and Tyrone Washington replaced Henderson.

Silver's compositions, catchy and very strong harmonically, gained popularity while his band gradually switched to funk and soul. This change of style was not readily accepted by many long-time fans. The quality of several albums of this era, such as The United States of Mind (on which Silver himself provided vocals on several tracks), is to this day contested by fans of the genre. Silver's spirituality displayed on these albums also has a mixed reputation. However, many of these later albums featured many interesting musicians (such as Randy Brecker). Silver was the last musician to be signed to Blue Note in the 1970s before it went into temporary abeyance. In 1981 he formed his own short-lived label, Silveto.

Later years

After Silver's long tenure with Blue Note ended, he continued to create vital music. The 1985 album, Continuity of Spirit (Silveto), features his unique orchestral collaborations. In the 1990s, Silver directly answered the urban popular music that had been largely built from his influence on It's Got To Be Funky (Columbia, 1993). Now living surrounded by a devoted family in California, Silver has received much of the recognition due a venerable jazz icon. In 2005, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) gave him its President's Merit Award. The SFJazz Collective will focus on Horace Silver's music for their 2010 season.

Legacy

Silver's music has been a major force in modern jazz. He was one of the first pioneers of the style known as Hard Bop, influencing such pianists as Bobby Timmons, Les McCann, and Ramsey Lewis. Second, the instrumentation of his quintet (trumpet, tenor sax, piano, double bass, and drums) served as a model for small jazz groups from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s. Further, Silver's ensembles provided an important training ground for young players, many of whom (such as Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Blue Mitchell, Woody Shaw, Junior Cook, and Joe Henderson) later led similar groups of their own.

Silver's talent did not go unnoticed among rock musicians who bore jazz influences, either; Steely Dan sent Silver into the Top 40 in the early 1970s when they crafted their biggest hit single, "Rikki, Don't Lose That Number," off the bass riff that opens "Song for My Father."

As social and cultural upheavals shook the nation during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Silver responded to these changes through music. He commented directly on the new scene through a trio of records called United States of Mind (1970–1972) that featured the spirited vocals of Andy Bey. The composer got deeper into cosmic philosophy as his group, Silver 'N Strings, recorded Silver 'N Strings Play The Music of the Spheres (1979).

Discography

As leader

;Blue Note Records

1955: Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers

1956: 6 Pieces of Silver

1957: The Stylings of Silver

1958: Further Explorations

1958: Live at Newport '58

1959: Finger Poppin'

1959: Blowin' the Blues Away

1960: Horace-Scope

1961: Doin' the Thing

1962: The Tokyo Blues

1963: Silver's Serenade

1964: Song for My Father

1965: The Cape Verdean Blues

1966: The Jody Grind

1968: Serenade to a Soul Sister

1969: You Gotta Take a Little Love

1970: That Healin' Feelin'

1971: Total Response

1972: All

1972: In Pursuit of the 27th Man

1975: Silver 'n Brass

1976: Silver 'n Wood

1977: Silver 'n Voices

1978: Silver 'n Percussion

1979: Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres

;Silveto Records/Emerald Records

1964: Live 1964

1965: The Natives are Restless Tonight

1981: Guides to Growing Up

1983: Spiritualizing the Senses

1984: There's No Need to Struggle

1985: The Continuity of Spirit

1988: Music to Ease Your Disease

;Columbia Records

1956: Silver's Blue

1993: It's Got to Be Funky

1994: Pencil Packin' Papa

;Impulse! Records

1996: The Hardbop Grandpop

1997: A Prescription for the Blues

;Other labels

1962: Paris Blues (Pablo)

1991: Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (Bop City)

1999: Jazz Has a Sense of Humor (Verve)

;Compilations

The Best of Horace Silver Vol. II

Retrospective

The United States of Mind (Blue Note) - compiles That Healin' Feelin', Total Response, and All

As sideman

'''with Nat Adderley :

Introducing Nat Adderley (1955, EmArcy)

'''with Art Blakey :

A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1954, Blue Note)

A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (1954, Blue Note)

A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 (1954, Blue Note)

At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1955, Blue Note)

At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (1955, Blue Note)

Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers (1956, Columbia)

Originally (1956, Columbia)

'''with Dee Dee Bridgewater :

(1994, Verve)

'''with Kenny Burrell :

K.B. Blues (1957, Blue Note)

'''with Donald Byrd :

Byrd's Eye View (1955, Transition)

'''with Paul Chambers :

Whims of Chambers (1956, Blue Note)

'''with Kenny Clarke :

Bohemia After Dark (1955, Savoy)

'''with Al Cohn :

Al Cohn's Tones (1953, Savoy)

'''with Miles Davis :

Miles Davis Volume 1 (1954, Blue Note Records)

Blue Haze (1954, Prestige Records)

Walkin' (1954, Prestige Records)

Bags' Groove (1954, Prestige Records)

'''with Kenny Dorham :

Afro-Cuban (1955, Blue Note Records)

'''with Lou Donaldson :

Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952, Blue Note Records)

'''with Art Farmer :

Early Art (1954, Prestige)

Art Farmer Septet (1954, Prestige)

'''with Leonard Feather :

Cats vs. Chicks (1954, MGM)

'''with Stan Getz :

The Complete Roost Recordings (1951, Blue Note Records)

Birdland Sessions (1952, Fresh Sound)

With Giant of Jazz

Giants of Jazz (1955, Mercury Records)

'''with Terry Gibbs :

Jazz USA (1951, Brunswick)

'''with Gigi Gryce :

When Farmer Met Gryce (1954, Prestige)

Nica's Tempo (1955, Savoy)

'''with Coleman Hawkins :

Disorder at the Border (1952, Spotlite)

'''with J. J. Johnson :

The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (1955, Blue Note)

'''with Milt Jackson :

Milt Jackson Quartet/Quintet (1954, Prestige Records)

Milt Jackson Quartet (1955, Prestige Records)

Plenty, Plenty Soul (1957, Atlantic)

with Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore

Blowing in from Chicago (1957, Blue Note)

'''with Howard McGhee :

Howard McGhee, Volume 2 (1953, Blue Note)

'''with Hank Mobley :

Hank Mobley Quartet (1955, Blue Note)

The Jazz Message of Hank Mobley (1956, Savoy)

Hank Mobley Sextet (1956, Blue Note)

Hank Mobley and his All Stars (1957, Blue Note)

Hank Mobley Quintet (1957, Blue Note)

'''with J. R. Monterose :

J. R. Monterose (1956, Blue Note)

'''with Lee Morgan :

Lee Morgan Indeed! (1956, Blue Note)

Lee Morgan Sextet (1956, Blue Note)

'''with Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore :

Blowing In from Chicago (1957, Blue Note)

'''with Rita Reys :

The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956, Columbia)

'''with Sonny Rollins :

Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (1957, Blue Note)

'''with Sonny Stitt :

Arrangements by Richards (1953, Roost/Mosaic)

'''with Clark Terry :

Introducing Clark Terry (1955, EmArcy)

'''with Phil Urso :

The Philosophy of Urso (1954, Savoy)

'''with Lester Young :

The Pres Box, Vol. 10-12 (1953, Jazz Up)

References

External links

Official site

Horace Silver Discography at the Hard Bop Home Page

Horace Silver entry at the Jazz Discography Project

Listening In: An Interview with Horace Silver by Bob Rosenbaum, Los Angeles, December 1981 (PDF file)

"The Dozens: Twelve Essential Horace Silver Recordings" by Bill Kirchner (Jazz.com)

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