Sam Dockery
Samuel Dockery (1929 – December 21, 2015), nicknamed Sure-Footed Sam, was a
Birdland,[4] and headed The Sam Dockery Trio in Philadelphia during the 1990s. He also taught at Philadelphia's University of the Arts.[1] He died in a nursing home in 2015, aged 86.[2] His brother was bassist Wayne Dockery
.
Discography
With Art Blakey
- Hard Bop (Columbia, 1956)
- Originally (Columbia, 1956) - unreleased until 1982
- Drum Suite (Columbia, 1956)
- Mirage (Savoy, 1957)
- Ritual: The Modern Jazz Messengers (Pacific Jazz, 1957)
- Vik, 1957)
- A Night in Tunisia(Vik, 1957)
- Cu-Bop (Jubilee, 1957)
- Tough! (Cadet, 1957 [1966])
- Hard Drive (Bethlehem, 1957)
With Clifford Brown
- The Beginning and the End (Columbia, 1973) - 1956 performance recorded in Philadelphia
With Dylan Taylor
- Mozaic
References
- ^ Philadelphia Inquirer, August 9, 1996
- ^ a b "Samuel Dockery, 86; Philadelphia jazz pianist"
- ISBN 0-634-03793-5
- ISBN 0472067915