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Herbert Daly Phillips ("Herb," "Herbie") (b. April 20, 1935, Nebraska - d. September 13, 1995, Las Vegas) was an American jazz trumpeter, big band composer, and arranger. He was especially well known in the Las Vegas music community. He had played trumpet many bands, including the Louie Bellson Big Band and Buddy Morrow, but his recorded compositions, particularly those by The Buddy Rich Big Band, are what made him famous.

His mother, Evelyn Phillips (nee Daly), a school teacher, died in Lincoln, NE, when he was 12. His father, Guy Phillips, a salesman, died in Lincoln, NE, when he as 19. He left home after finishing high school in Lincoln, played trumpet in several "territory bands," spent some time in New York, then settled in Las Vegas in the 1960s. Despite being a superb jazz trumpeter, writing music was perhaps more important to him. His colleagues often saw him writing arrangements during show-band breaks — as can be seen in the documentary film of Elvis's first appearance at the Las Vegas Hilton. In the late 1980's, he temporarily retired from playing to devote more time to writing for his own rehearsal band. Though there are a number of tapes floating around, Herbie's band was never professionally recorded.

He was once married to (and divorced from) Carol Phillips[1], but spent his final 20 years with his girlfriend, Barbara Russo, who still lives in Las Vegas.

Discography

Original 1971 LP — Rich in London (RCA LSP-4666)
Little Train, composed and arranged by Herbie Phillips
Original 1972 LP — Very Alive At Ronnie Scott's (English RCA DPS-2031)
Milestones, composed by Miles Davis, arranged by Herbie Phillips
Original 2005 DVD — Live in '78, Buddy's Killer Force group — The best band I ever had. (Jazz Icons)
Little Trane (sic), composed and arranged by Herbie Phillips
  • Neil Peart and the Buddy Rich Big Band — Tribute to Buddy Rich
Original 1994 CD — Burning for Buddy, Volume 1
Milestones, drums performed by Billy Cobham, composed by Miles Davis, arranged by Herbie Phillips
Original 1995 CD — Heavyweights: The Bobby Shew Quintet with Carl Fontana (MAMA Records)
My Romance, arranged by Herbie Phillips
The Girl From Ipanema, arranged by Herbie Phillips
Night And Day, arranged by Herbie Phillips
(Recorded posthumously at MadHatter Studios, September 20-21, 1995 ... one week after the death of Phillips)
  • Carl Fontana
  • Carl Sanders
  • Tommy Vig Orchestra
  • Buddy Morrow and His Orchestra
  • Dave Holland Big Band
  • Raoul Romero
  • John La Barbara
Original 2004 CD — On the Wild Side (Jazz Compass)

Compositions/Arrangements

  • Strike out the Band — Herbie Phillips, Carl Sanders
  • Some Bones of Contention — Herbie Phillips, Carl Sanders
  • Compilation — Herbie Phillips, Carl Saunders (brisk I Got Rhythm variant)
  • Perceptive Hindsight — Herbie Phillips, Carl Saunders
  • Dearly Befuddled — Herbie Phillips, Carl Saunders
  • An Apple for Christa — Herbie Phillips, Carl Saunders (a tribute to teacher/astronaut Christa McAuliffe).
  • Little Train — Herbie Phillips
  • Milestones — Miles Davis (arr. Herbie Phillips)
  • My Foolish Heart — (arr Herbie Phillips)
  • Waltz On — Herbie Phillips
  • My Romance — arranged by Herbie Phillips
  • The Girl From Ipanema — arranged by Herbie Phillips
  • Night And Day — arranged by Herbie Phillips
  • I'm All for You — (a Latin version of Body and Soul), arranged by Herbie Phillips

Notes

  1. ^ Maiden name not known, believed to have married in New York City.

2002 — Album, Tribute to Herbie Phillips, Be Bop Big Band , Carl Saunders, director/trumpet, Sea Breeze Records (CD) Released: 24 September, 2002

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