Bob Enevoldsen

Robert Martin "Bob" Enevoldsen (11 September 1920 Montana – 19 November 2005 Woodland Hills, California^[1]) was a West Coast jazz tenor saxophonist and valve trombonist born in Billings, Montana, probably best known for his work with Marty Paich. He also did sessions with Art Pepper and Shorty Rogers, and later extensively played with Shelly Manne. It is a little-known fact that Enevoldsen was a highly skilled arranger and did most of the arranging work for Steve Allen's Westinghouse show in the early 60's. During the 1970s he gigged sometimes with Gerry Mulligan also, among others.

In the mid-1970s Enevoldsen taught a popular arranging class and directed the jazz band at Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills, CA ^[2][3]

Discography

As leader

• Los Angeles, spring 1954, originally released on Nocturne LP6, re-released as a compilation, The Music of Bob Enevoldsen, Fresh Sound (2006)

Bob Enevoldsen (vocal, trombone, tenor sax), Marty Paich (piano, organ, accordion), Howard Roberts (guitar), Harry Babasin (bass, cello), Don Heath (drums), Roy Harte (percussion)

As sideman

With Gil Fuller

• Night Flight (Pacific Jazz, 1965)

With Jimmy Giuffre

• Jimmy Giuffre (Capitol, 1955)

With Fred Katz

• Folk Songs for Far Out Folk (Warner Bros., 1958)

With Shelly Manne

• The West Coast Sound (Contemporary, 1953-55 [1955])
• Concerto for Clarinet & Combo (Contemporary, 1957)

With Gerry Mulligan

• Gene Norman Presents the Original Gerry Mulligan Tentet and Quartet (GNP, 1953 [1997])

With André Previn

• The Subterraneans (Soundtrack) (MGM, 1960)

With Shorty Rogers

• Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (RCA Victor, 1954)
• The Wild One soundtrack (Bear Family Records, 1989^[4])
• Martians Come Back! (Atlantic, 1955 [1956])
• Way Up There (Atlantic, 1955 [1957])

With Bud Shank

• Strings & Trombones (Pacific Jazz, 1955)

With Mel Torme

• Mel Torme Sings Fred Astaire (Bethlehem, 1956)

References

1. "Bob Enevoldsen". The Independent (London). December 5, 2005. Retrieved April 26, 2010.
2. Ankeny, Jason. "Bob Enevoldsen Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
3. Gordon Jack "Bob Enevoldsen", (transcription of 1998 oral interview), Jazz Journal International, 53:10, October 2000, pp.12–13
   
   OCLC 3290573, 6181950 and 639977675 OCLC 672655665, 473334864 and 20574555
   ISSN 0140-2285 LCCN 77-643205
4. http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/jazz_themes_from_two_great_movies_by_leith_stevens_the_wild_one__private_hell_36-cd-3997.html