Gregory Charles Royal
Gregory Charles Royal, also known as Chuck Royal, is an American musician, trombonist, composer, writer, co-founder of The BeBop Channel Corporation, the former parent owner of JazzTimes.[1] [2] founder of the New York Jazz Film Festival, a former judge on America's Hot Musician.[3][4] and the former artistic director of the American Youth Symphony (AYS) in Washington, D.C.[5]
Early life and education
As a student at Howard University,[6] he received the 1982 DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award for Jazz Vocal Group: Graduate College Outstanding Performance in the Jazz Instrumental Soloist Category.[7] He graduated from Howard University with a Master of Music in Jazz Studies.[5]
Career
Royal played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1989–99), Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers,[8] Slide Hampton and his World of Trombones[9] and Howard University Jazz Ensemble.[10] He has appeared onstage as a trombonist with the Broadway shows Five Guys Named Moe[11] and Jelly's Last Jam.[12]
Royal has also written and appeared in the Off-Broadway production God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever, presented in March 2012 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center,[13] and in 2022 at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York.[14]
Royal wrote and appeared in the short film World's Not for Me, in which he plays a jazz musician who awakens from a near 30 year coma to find a world he no longer recognizes musically, culturally or financially. The film won the Harlem Spotlight Best Narrative Short Award at the Harlem International Film Festival in September, 2016.[15]
References
- ^ "'BeBop' Acquires Madavor Media - JazzTimes, Outdoor Photographer and Other Leading Media Properties". OTC Markets. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- ^ [1],"Blacknews.com", May 20, 2018,
- ^ "Battling Rap Culture and Digital Sampling, The America's Hot Musician Finals Set to Air on Lifetime Real Women Saturday, July 12, 2008". PRWeb. July 8, 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "The Judges". America's Hot Musician. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ a b "Gregory Charles Royal: Jazz in 'Grave' Danger". Jazz News. 2005. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Booker, Simeon (February 7, 1980). "Ticker Tape USA". Jet. p. 11. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Awards". Howard University Jazz Ensemble. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Bock, Gordon (January 10, 1979). "College kids discover Jazzman Art Blakey". Nashua Telegraph. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Wilson, John S. (October 8, 1982). "Slide Hampton's Trombone World". New York Times. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Members". Howard University Jazz Ensemble. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Gregory Charles Royal". IDBD Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Taylor, Markland (November 13, 1994). "Review: 'Jelly's Last Jam'". Variety. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "WMCI and American Youth Symphony present A Red Carpet Benefit Gala and Premiere of the new Musical 'God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever'". Baruch College. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Theatre Row Onstage". Theatre Row. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
- ^ "2016 Awards", Harlem International Film Festival.
Bibliography
- Scott Harris, "Prince of the Pick up Picks Up The Pieces", Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1997
- Leonard Feather, Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Oxford University Press, 1999
- RPM Magazine, Volume 62, No. 10, October 9, 1995
- Life 1999 Universal Pictures
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- Victor Sproles
- Bobby Timmons
- Jean Toussaint
- McCoy Tyner
- Cedar Walton
- Peter Washington
- Doug Watkins
- Bobby Watson
- James Williams
- Reggie Workman
albums
- The Jazz Messengers (1956)
- Hard Bop (1957)
- Ritual (1957)
- Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... (1957)
- Cu-Bop (1957)
- Hard Drive (1957)
- A Night in Tunisia (1958)
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1958)
- Moanin' (1959)
- The Big Beat (1960)
- A Night in Tunisia (1961)
- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1961)
- Mosaic (1962)
- Buhaina's Delight (1963)
- Caravan (1963)
- The Freedom Rider (1964)
- Free for All (1964)
- Kyoto (1964)
- Golden Boy (1964)
- Indestructible (1965)
- 'S Make It (1965)
- Soul Finger (1965)
- Tough! (1966)
- Like Someone in Love (1967)
- The Witch Doctor (1969)
- Roots & Herbs (1970)
- Child's Dance (1972)
- Buhaina (1973)
- Anthenagin (1973)
- In Walked Sonny (1975)
- Backgammon (1976)
- Gypsy Folk Tales (1977)
- In My Prime Vol. 1 (1978)
- In My Prime Vol. 2 (1978)
- Reflections in Blue (1979)
- Night in Tunisia: Digital Recording (1979)
- Album of the Year (1981)
- Oh-By the Way (1984)
- Blue Night (1985)
- Feeling Good (1986)
- Not Yet (1988)
- I Get a Kick Out of Bu (1988)
- Chippin' In (1990)
- One for All (1990)
albums
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1956)
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (1956)
- A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers (1957)
- 1958 – Paris Olympia (1959)
- At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 & 2 (1959)
- Art Blakey et les Jazz Messengers au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1960)
- Paris Jam Session (1960)
- Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 and 2 (1960)
- A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March (1961)
- Three Blind Mice (1962)
- Ugetsu (1963)
- Buttercorn Lady (1966)
- Jazz Messengers '70 (1970)
- In This Korner (1978)
- Live at Montreux and Northsea (1980)
- One by One (1981)
- Art Blakey in Sweden (1981)
- Straight Ahead (1981)
- Keystone 3 (1982)
- Live at Kimball's (1985)
- The Art of Jazz: Live in Leverkusen (1989)
albums
- Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1956)
- The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)
- Drum Suite (1957)
- Pisces (1979)
- Africaine (1981)
- Originally (1982)
albums
- Des Femmes Disparaissent (1959)
- Les liaisons dangereuses 1960 (1960)
solo albums
- Blakey (1954)*
- A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, Vol. 2 & Vol. 3 (1954)
- Orgy in Rhythm (1957)
- Art Blakey Big Band (1957)
- Holiday for Skins (1958)
- Drums Around the Corner (1959)
- The African Beat (1962)
- A Jazz Message (1963)
- Hold On, I'm Coming (1966)
- Killer Joe (1981)
- Bluesiana Triangle (1990)