Lloyd Trotman

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Lloyd Trotman
June 1955
Background information
Birth name	Lloyd Nelson Trotman
Born	(1923-05-25)May 25, 1923
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died	October 3, 2007(2007-10-03) (aged 84)
Genres	Jazz, R&B
Instrument(s)	Double bass
Years active	1940s–1970s
Labels	Atlantic Records, Cadence Records, King Records and others

Lloyd Nelson Trotman (May 25, 1923

Trotman began playing the club scene on 52nd Street in New York in 1945, playing with Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday. One of his earliest recording sessions was on Duke Ellington's 1950 album, Great Times! with Billy Strayhorn and Oscar Pettiford.^[6]

He worked with, traveled with, and recorded with many jazz artists including Johnny Hodges, Woody Herman, Lawrence Brown, Bud Powell, Al Sears, Henry "Red" Allen, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Scott, Billy Taylor, Don Wilkerson, Billie Holiday, Lucky Millinder, Boyd Raeburn, and Blanche Calloway.^[6]

As a

He was a member of Alan Freed's Rock & Roll Orchestra at the Brooklyn Paramount and Fox Theaters during the late 1950s.^[1] He was a member of the Apollo house band during the late 1940s and early 1950s.^[3]

Trotman worked with the following producers and arrangers:

He worked with Henry "Red" Allen at the Newport Jazz Festival (July 5, 1959). He played the New York World's Fair Wonder World Aqua Show (April to July 1964). He also did the Broadway play Flora The Red Menace with Liza Minnelli from May to July 1965.

Trotman continued to play many weekend nightclub dates into the early 1980s. After retiring from the music business, he became a loan officer at Islip National Bank. Mostly, Trotman was devoted to his family - Gertrude, his wife of 62 years; and his three children, Linda, Timothy, and Nelson. Trotman received many awards and had newspaper and magazine articles written about his career. He gave interviews and spoke with high school classes, senior citizen centers, and community groups about his life and career.

Lloyd Trotman died of pneumonia aged 84, on October 3, 2007, on Long Island, and is buried at Pinelawn Memorial Park, in Farmingdale, New York.^[2]

Discography

• Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn – Great Times! (1950)
• Big Joe Turner – "Shake, Rattle and Roll" (1954), "Corrine, Corrina" (1956)
• Chuck Willis – "C.C. Rider" (1957)
• World on a String
  (1957)
• The Coasters – "Yakety Yak" (1958)
• Ruth Brown - Ruth Brown (Atlantic, 1957), Miss Rhythm (Atlantic, 1959)
• Ben E. King – "Spanish Harlem" (1960), "Stand by Me" (1961)
• Don Wilkerson – Elder Don (1962)
• The Drifters - "Save the Last Dance for Me" (1960)
• King Curtis - Azure (1960)
• Erskine Hawkins - The Hawk Blows At Midnight (1960)
• Big Maybelle - "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" (1955)
• I Put A Spell On You
  " (1956)
• Everly Brothers - "Let It Be Me
  " (1959)
• Al Sears - The Big Raw Tone (King, 1951)
• Johnny Hodges - Castle Rock (Verve, 1951-52 [1955]), In a Tender Mood (Norgran, 1952 [1955])
• Ray Charles - "Mess Around" (Atlantic, 1953)
• Memphis Slim - Legend of the Blues Vol. 1 and vol.2 (Verve, 1967)
• Memphis Slim - The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 7 (Sonet, 1973)
• James Brown - Prisoner of Love (King, 1963)
• Jackie Wilson - "Reet Petite"

References