Oscar Brashear – Biography, Discography & Instruments

Biography

Oscar Brashear was a jazz musician who played trumpet. Oscar Brashear was born on 18 August 1944 in Chicago and died on 7 July 2023. The music is usually filed under jazz.

Oscar Brashear (August 18, 1944 – July 7, 2023) was an American jazz trumpeter and session musician from Chicago, Illinois. After studying at DuSable High School and Wright Jr. College (currently known as Wilbur Wright College) under John DeRoule he worked briefly with Woody Herman before going on to join Count Basie in 1968–69, returning to freelance in Chicago with Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon and James Moody. Moving to Los Angeles in 1971, he worked with Gerald Wilson, Harold Land, Oliver Nelson, Shelly Manne, Quincy Jones (with whom he toured in Japan), Horace Silver and Duke Pearson. Brashear recorded with Teddy Edwards, Jimmy Smith, Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson, Bobby Hutcherson, B. B. King, Bobby Bland, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Farrell, The Crusaders, McCoy Tyner, Gene Harris, Randy Newman, Frank Sinatra, Earth, Wind & Fire, Carole King, Benny Carter, Billy Higgins and Ry Cooder.

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Also plays on

Albums where Oscar Brashear is credited as a sideman

1972	Universe — Hampton Hawes	trumpet
1973	Both Feet on the Ground — Kenny Burrell	brass
1974	Stories to Tell — Flora Purim	flugelhorn
1974	Prelusion — Patrice Rushen	flugelhorn, trumpet
1975	Silver 'n Brass — Horace Silver	brass
1975	Montara — Bobby Hutcherson	trumpet
1975	Skull Session — Oliver Nelson	flugelhorn, trumpet
1975	Stratosonic Nuances — Blue Mitchell	trumpet
1975	Marching in the Street — Harvey Mason	trumpet
1976	Caricatures — Donald Byrd	trumpet
1976	Can't Hide Love — Carmen McRae	trumpet
1976	Eternity — Alice Coltrane	trumpet
1976	Black Miracle — Joe Henderson	brass
1976	Everybody Come On Out — Stanley Turrentine	brass
1976	How Can You Live Like That? — Eddie Harris	trumpet
1976	People Moving — Azar Lawrence	trumpet
1977	Free Ride — Dizzy Gillespie	trumpet
1977	The Way I Feel — Sonny Rollins	trumpet
1977	Hawthorne Nights — Zoot Sims	trumpet
1977	Tequila Mockingbird — Ramsey Lewis	trumpet
1977	The San Francisco Concert — Hubert Laws	trumpet
1978	Love Will Find a Way — Pharoah Sanders	trumpet
1978	California Shower — 渡辺貞夫	trumpet
1978	Patrice — Patrice Rushen	flugelhorn
1978	Burchfield Nines — Michael Franks	trumpet
1978	Night Dancing — Joe Farrell	trumpet
1979	The Love Connection — Freddie Hubbard	trumpet
1979	Land of Passion — Hubert Laws	brass
1979	Turn You to Love — Terry Callier	trumpet
1979	Street Life — The Crusaders	trumpet