John William Heard (July 3, 1938 – December 10, 2021) was an American bass player and artist. His recording credits include albums with

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George Duke George M. Duke (January 12, 1946 – August 5, 2013) was an American keyboardist, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He worked with numerous artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and as a pr ...

Oscar Peterson Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, ...

Count Basie William James "Count" Basie (; August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and the ...

Zoot Sims John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto (and, later, soprano) saxophone. He first gained attention in the "Four Brothers" sax section of Woody Herman's big ...

Ahmad Jamal Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and educator. For six decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. Biography Early life Jamal was born Fr ...

Frank Morgan Francis Phillip Wuppermann (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949), known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916, and then numerous sound ...

George Cables George Andrew Cables (born November 14, 1944) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Early life Cables was born in New York City, United States. He was initially taught piano by his mother. He then studied at the High School of Performing Ar ...

. His professional jazz performance career lasted from the 1960s to the early 2010s, during which he also worked as a visual artist, producing drawings, paintings, and sculptures.

Background

He was born in

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, United States. He also played saxophone in his early years. He began playing bass at the age of 14. His professional career began in a band that included sax player

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, drummer J.C. Moses, pianist Horace Parlan and trumpet player

Tommy Turrentine Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. (April 22, 1928 – May 13, 1997) was a swing and hard bop trumpeter and composer who was active between the 1940s and the 1960s. He rarely worked as a bandleader, and was known for his work as a sideman with drum ...

. While in high school, he attended special classes at the

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. In 1958, he joined the

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and was sent to Germany. Because of his art experience he was given a job of designing posters for events. He also did some art teaching, teaching the wives of officers. He left the Air Force in 1961 and enrolled at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He returned to music and went to Buffalo and later to California. On December 10, 2021, Heard died at the age of 83.

Art

In the 1980s, he had converted a North Hollywood garage into a studio and was spending much time there painting. He said that he was hanging out with Santa Monica-based sculptor Jim Casey, who was teaching him the way he wanted to learn. 18 months prior to his being interviewed for the article he had taken up sculpting. His first one was a bust of

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, then one of

Billy Eckstine William Clarence Eckstine (July 8, 1914 – March 8, 1993) was an American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader during the swing and bebop eras. He was noted for his rich, almost operatic bass-baritone voice. In 2019, Eckstine was posthumously ...

. At the time he was working on one of

Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...

. Examples of his work are held in the Oakland Museum of California. They include drawings of

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and

Milt Jackson Milton Jackson (January 1, 1923 – October 9, 1999), nicknamed "Bags", was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solo ...

Musical career

1960s

Playing double-bass, he has worked with

and

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from the mid to late 1960s. Also in the late 1960s he worked with

Jean-Luc Ponty Jean-Luc Ponty (born 29 September 1942) is a French jazz violinist and composer. Early life Ponty was born into a family of classical musicians in Avranches, France. His father taught violin, his mother taught piano. At sixteen, he was admitt ...

Sonny Rollins Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a ...

and

Wes Montgomery John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. Montgomery was known for an unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb and his extensive use of octaves, which gave him a dist ...

1970s

In the 1970s, he performed with

Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese–American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in ''Down Beat'' magazine's annual Readers' Poll. ...

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, John Collins,

Joe Henderson Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than four decades, Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent l ...

Blue Mitchell Richard Allen "Blue" Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979) was an American trumpeter and composer who worked in jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk. He recorded albums as leader and sideman for Riverside, Mainstream Records, and ...

and

1980s

In the 1980s, he performed with

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Edward F. Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. It is unclear how he acquired the moniker "Lockjaw" (later shortened in "Jaws"): it is either said that ...

Buddy Montgomery Charles "Buddy" Montgomery (January 30, 1930 – May 14, 2009) was an American jazz vibraphonist and pianist. He was the younger brother of Wes and Monk Montgomery, a guitarist and bassist respectively. Buddy and brother Monk formed The Masters ...

and

.Historical Dictionary of Jazz by John S. Davi
Page 161 Heard, John William (1938 -)
/ref> In 1981, he played bass on the ''Blue Balkan'' album by pianist

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. Other musicians to play on the album were vibraphonist

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and drummer Eddie More. Heard also played with Vuckovich's band on their first "Club Date" show on PBS, which was picked up by at least 120 cities in the U.S. In addition to Heard and Vuckovitch, the band included Tom Harrell on trumpet, and Sherman Ferguson on drums. As an unexpected bonus, the group was joined by saxophonist Charles McPherson for their last piece. The show's producer Paul Marshall spotted him in the audience, and asked him if he had his saxophone which he did and asked him to join them. In 1983, he joined

Tom Ranier Thomas John Ranier (born July 13, 1949) is an American instrumentalist who primarily plays piano but also saxophone and clarinet. As a jazz artist he has recorded widely under his own name and as a sideman for Warner Bros., Concord Records and se ...

and

Sherman Ferguson Sherman Eugene Ferguson (October 31, 1944 – January 22, 2006) was an American jazz drummer. For a time he was a member of the jazz trio Heard Ranier Ferguson. Background Ferguson once said that when people asked him what he did, he wouldn't ...

to create the group Heard, Ranier, Ferguson, which released an eponymous album on the ITI Records label in 1983. The album art included a lithograph of Count Basie that was drawn by John Heard. An article in ''

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s October 1983 issue, indicated that he was going to be used as a graphic artist for the label. He was to be marketed as both an artist and a musician. In an article in the ''

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'' dated 31 May 1987, he said that he had always wanted to paint, and planned to leave music. Before his retirement he had managed to record with musicians such as Spanish pianist

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, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Art Pepper, Clark Terry, Pharoah Sanders, Zoot Sims and Joe Williams.

1990s

After taking time out from music to do painting, he returned to the scene and played with,

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, Jamal and others.

2000s

In 2005, he had his album ''The Jazz Composer's Songbook'' released on Straight Ahead Records and produced by

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and mastered by

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.Discog
John Heard & Co. – The Jazz Composer's Song Book
/ref> Around the mid-2000s onwards, his group The John Heard Trio played at Charlie O's club in Van Nuys. In 2005, the group consisted of John Heard on bass, Tom Garvin on piano and Roy McCurdy on drums. At the club they played with Justo Almario and Rickey Woodard. Around 2010, the group consisted of Heard on bass, Andy Langham on piano and Roy McCurdy on drums and later around 2011, Lorca Hart instead of McCurdy was on drums. They would play Fridays and Saturdays there. Some of the musicians they would appear with were trumpet player Scotty Barnhart, trumpet player Ron King, saxophonists Chuck Manning, Don Menza, Lanny Morgan and guitarist Thom Rotella.

Discography

LPs

* Heard Ranier Ferguson – '' Heard Ranier Ferguson'' – ITI Records – JL 003 – 1983 * John Heard & Co. – ''The Jazz Composer's Songbook'' – Straight Ahead Records – SAR102 (180gram) 2005Discog
John Heard & Co. – The Jazz Composer's Song Book
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CDs

* John Heard & Co. – ''The Jazz Composer's Song Book'' – Straight Ahead Records – SAR102 (Hybrid, Dual Disc, Side1: CD, Side2: DVD) 2005 * Evan Hartzell Trio
Songs About Love and Nature feat. John Heard and Laura Alvarez
-LJD002(lejazzdiscos) 2009

Appearances (selective)

* The George Duke Trio – '' Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio'' – 1969 * George Duke - '' The Inner Source'' - 1971 *

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– ''

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'' – 1972 *

Cal Tjader Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. ( ; July 16, 1925 – May 5, 1982) was an American Latin Jazz musician, known as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician. He explored other jazz idioms, even as he continued to perform music of Afro-Jazz, ...

– ''Live at the Funky Quarters'' - 1972 * Cal Tjader – ''Puttin' It Together'' - 1973 * Cal Tjader and Charlie Byrd – ''Tambu'' - 1973 * Cal Tjader – ''Last Bolero in Berkeley'' - 1973 * George Duke - '' Faces in Reflection'' - 1974 * George Duke - ''

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'' - 1974 * Moacir Santos –

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- 1974 *

and

– '' Basie & Zoot'' – 1975 * Joe Henderson – '' Canyon Lady'' – 1975 *

– Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's – 1976 * Count Basie – ''

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'' – 1976 * Jean-Luc Ponty – '' Cantaloupe Island'' – 1976 * Count Basie – ''

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'' – 1976 *

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and

Warne Marsh Warne Marion Marsh (October 26, 1927 – December 18, 1987) was an American tenor saxophonist. Born in Los Angeles, his playing first came to prominence in the 1950s as a protégé of pianist Lennie Tristano and earned attention in the 1970s as ...

- ''

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'' - 1976 *

Harry Edison Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 – July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backi ...

– ''

Edison's Lights ''Edison's Lights'' is an album by trumpeter Harry Edison recorded in 1976 and released by the Pablo label.

'' (Pablo, 1976) * Blue Mitchell – ''

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'' – 1977 * Count Basie – '' Kansas City 5'' – 1977 * Oscar Peterson and Count Basie – '' Satch and Josh...Again'' – 1977 * Kenny Burrell – ''

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'' – 1978 * Oscar Peterson – '' The London Concert'' – 1978 * Oscar Peterson and Count Basie – '' Yessir, That's My Baby'' – 1978 * Ira Sullivan - ''

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'' (Galaxy, 1978) * Ira Sullivan - ''

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'' (Galaxy, 1978

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– ''

Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn ''Toshiko Plays Billy Strayhorn'' (also released as ''A Tribute to Billy Strayhorn'' (JAM) and ''Dedications III'' (Alfa)) is a jazz album recorded by two different configurations of the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio in 1978. It was released on the Dis ...

'' – 1978 *

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– '' Dream Dancing'' – 1978 * Oscar Peterson and Count Basie – '' Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson – The Timekeepers'' – 1978 * John Haley Sims and Harry Sweets Edison – ''

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'' – 1978 *

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– '' Let the Good Times Roll'' – 1979 * Ahmad Jamal – ''

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'' – 1980 *

– '' Morning Song'' (HighNote, 1980 eleased 2008 * Kenny Burrell – ''

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'' – 1980 *

- '' Catalonian Nights Vol. 1'', '' Catalonian Nights Vol. 2'', '' Catalonian Nights Vol. 3'' - 1980 * Oscar Peterson and Count Basie – '' Night Rider'' – 1980 * Count Basie – '' Kansas City 7'' – 1980 * Gene Harris – '' Live at Otter Crest'' – 1981 *

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– '' I Want a Little Girl'' (Pablo, 1981) * Gene Harris – ''Hot Lips'' – 1982 * Count Basie – '' Mostly Blues...and Some Others'' – 1983 * Pharoah Sanders – ''

Heart is a Melody ''Heart is a Melody'' is a live album led by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1982 and released on the Theresa label.

'' – 1983 * Tete Montoliu - ''

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'' - 1984 * George Cables – ''

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'' – 1985 *

- ''

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'' - 1985 *

– ''

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'' – 1986 * George Cables – '' By George'' – 1987 *

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– '' That Old Feeling'' (Contemporary, 1986) * Bud Shank – ''

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'' (Contemporary, 1987) with Bill Perkins *

Bud Shank Quintet – '' Quiet Fire'' (Contemporary, 1987 991 *

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– '' Sumi-e'' – 1993 *

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– ''

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'' – 2005

References

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