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Caughey Roberts (August 25, 1912 – December 15, 1990) was an American jazz alto sax player, best known for his time in the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1930s.
He was born in Boley, Oklahoma,[1] later moving to Los Angeles. He played both baritone and alto sax, and clarinet. During the early-1930s, he was a music band teacher at Jefferson High School in Los Angeles.[2] He later joined Buck Clayton’s 14-piece jazz ensemble (known as the Harlem Gentlemen).[3] They traveled by cruise liner to Shanghai, China where they performed an extended engagement at the elegant Canidrome Ballroom. He would eventually leave Shanghai before the 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War.[4][5] After returning from Shanghai, he replaced Buster Smith in the Count Basie Orchestra, leaving in 1942 when he was replaced by Earle Warren.[6] He also played in Roy Milton's band. Caughey was drafted into the U.S. Army on August 13, 1942. He trained at Fort Huachuca for a week and a half. He requested to go with the band assigned at Fort Huachuca, but ended up with another band at Papago Park (Prisoner-of-War Camp) sixteen miles out of Phoenix, Arizona. He was there close to four years playing in the dance band and a small combo. He was honorably discharge from the U.S. Army with the rank of Sergeant, in February 1946.[7][8] In later years he played in the traditional jazz band at Disneyland's New Orleans Square with Teddy Buckner and others.[9]
He died in Los Angeles in 1990 at the age of 78.[6]
Discography
[edit]With Count Basie
- The Original American Decca Recordings (GRP, 1992)
References
[edit]- ↑ "14th census of population, 1920. [microform]". Washington, D.C. : National Archives and Records Administration. Jul 25, 1992. Retrieved July 25, 2025 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-12-25. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Amazon.com". Amazon.com. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
- ↑ Jones. Andrew F. [2001 (2001). Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke University Press] Archived 2014-12-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Clayton, Buck; Elliott, Nancy Miller (Jul 25, 1987). "Buck Clayton's Jazz World". Oxford University Press. Retrieved July 25, 2025 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 "Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music - BASIE, Count". Donaldclarkemusicbox.com. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
- ↑ "World War II Army Enlistment Records, created, 6/1/2002 - 9/30/2002, documenting the period ca. 1938 - 1946". Aad.archives.gov. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
- ↑ Peter Vacher, "Swingin' on Central Avenue, African American Jazz in Los Angeles, Published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, pp. 141-142
- ↑ Bryant, Clora (July 25, 1998). "Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles". University of California Press. p. 226. Retrieved July 25, 2025 – via Google Books.
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