Bridgewater, Cecil

LC control no.	n 86140858
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bridgewater, Cecil *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bridgewater, C. (Cecil)
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1942-10-10
Place of birth	Urbana (Ill.)
Affiliation	University of Illinois at Chicago Jazz Orchestra Count Basie Orchestra Bridgewater Brothers Band (Musical group)
Profession or occupation	Trumpet players Educators Composers Soldiers
Found in	His Scott free [SR] p1985: label (C. Bridgewater) container (all compositions by Cecil Bridgewater; plays trumpet and flugelhorn) African American National Biography, accessed December 28, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cecil Vernon Bridgewater; trumpeter, educator, composer / arranger, soldier; born 10 October 1942 in Urbana, Illinois, United States; student at Marquette Grade School in Champaign, Illinois; head of the trumpet section at the University of Illinois School of Music; in 1964 enlisted in the U.S. Army and was accepted into the 25-th Infantry Army Band; from 1968 to 1970 toured the Soviet Union and Europe with the University of Illinois band; in 1969 formed the Bridgewater Brothers Band with his brother, the saxophonist Ronald Scott Bridgewater; joined the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in New York City; worked with Horace Silver (1970), Max Roach (1971), Art Blakey (1972), Jimmy Heath (1974-1976), Lena Horne (1982-1983), Mercer Ellington (1985-1986), Grover Mitchell, Richard Davis, and the Count Basie Orchestra with Frank Foster; in 1997 received a Grammy nomination for his arrangement of the song "Undecided")