Bobby Shew
Robert Shew (born March 4, 1941) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player.
After leaving college in 1960, Shew was drafted into the U.S. Army and played trumpet with the NORAD band in Colorado Springs and on tour. After leaving the Army, Shew joined Tommy Dorsey's band and then played with the Woody Herman and then the Buddy Rich Big Bands in the mid- to late 1960s. In 1972 Shew moved from Las Vegas to Los Angeles where he did much studio work as well as play with some of the top big bands of the era through the end of the 1970s: Akiyoshi/Tabackin; Bellson; Ferguson; and others. In addition to playing on several notable Big Band recordings starting in the 1960s, Shew recorded several albums as leader starting with 1978's Telepathy.
Shew is now living near Albuquerque, NM. where he has spent time mentoring jazz musicians in the area and leading the local Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra. Additionally, Shew is a member of the faculty at the Skidmore Summer Jazz Institute, a two-week residential jazz workshop primarily for high school students, located in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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Bobby Shew
ALBUMS
- Dialogic released: 2009
- I Can't Say No released: 2002
- Bobby Shew, Gary Foster and Friends Play the Music of Reed Kotler released: 2002
- Salsa Caliente released: 1998
- Trumpet Summit released: 1996
- Heavyweights released: 1995
- Tribute to the Masters released: 1995
- One in a Million released: 1992
- Breakfast Wine released: 1985
- Trumpets No End released: 1983
- Telepathy released: 1982
- Metropole Orchestra released:
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by Bobby Hachey
Johnny Be Good
by: Bobby HacheyDeep down Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell
Go go
Go Johnny go
Go Johnny go
Go Johnny go
Go Johnny go
Johnny B. Goode
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Go sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Oh, the engineerswould see him sitting in the shade
Strumming with the rhythm that the drivers made
People passing by they would stop and say
Oh my that little country boy could play
Go go
Go Johnny go
Go Johnny go
Go Johnny go
Go Johnny go
Johnny B. Goode
His mother told him "Someday you will be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight."
Go go
Go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go
Go go go Johnny go