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Gregory Charles Royal, also known as Chuck Royal, is an American musician, trombonist, composer, writer, co-founder of The BeBop Channel Corporation, the former parent owner of JazzTimes.[1] [2] founder of the New York Jazz Film Festival, a former judge on America's Hot Musician.[3][4] and the former artistic director of the American Youth Symphony (AYS) in Washington, D.C.[5]
Early life and education
As a student at Howard University,[6] he received the 1982 DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award for Jazz Vocal Group: Graduate College Outstanding Performance in the Jazz Instrumental Soloist Category.[7] He graduated from Howard University with a Master of Music in Jazz Studies.[5]
Career
Royal played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1989–99), Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers,[8] Slide Hampton and his World of Trombones[9] and Howard University Jazz Ensemble.[10] He has appeared onstage as a trombonist with the Broadway shows Five Guys Named Moe[11] and Jelly's Last Jam.[12]
Royal has also written and appeared in the Off-Broadway production God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever, presented in March 2012 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center,[13] and in 2022 at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York.[14]
Royal wrote and appeared in the short film World's Not for Me, in which he plays a jazz musician who awakens from a near 30 year coma to find a world he no longer recognizes musically, culturally or financially. The film won the Harlem Spotlight Best Narrative Short Award at the Harlem International Film Festival in September, 2016.[15]
References
- ^ "'BeBop' Acquires Madavor Media - JazzTimes, Outdoor Photographer and Other Leading Media Properties". OTC Markets. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- ^ [1],"Blacknews.com", May 20, 2018,
- ^ "Battling Rap Culture and Digital Sampling, The America's Hot Musician Finals Set to Air on Lifetime Real Women Saturday, July 12, 2008". PRWeb. July 8, 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "The Judges". America's Hot Musician. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ a b "Gregory Charles Royal: Jazz in 'Grave' Danger". Jazz News. 2005. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Booker, Simeon (February 7, 1980). "Ticker Tape USA". Jet. p. 11. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Awards". Howard University Jazz Ensemble. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Bock, Gordon (January 10, 1979). "College kids discover Jazzman Art Blakey". Nashua Telegraph. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Wilson, John S. (October 8, 1982). "Slide Hampton's Trombone World". New York Times. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Members". Howard University Jazz Ensemble. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Gregory Charles Royal". IDBD Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ Taylor, Markland (November 13, 1994). "Review: 'Jelly's Last Jam'". Variety. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "WMCI and American Youth Symphony present A Red Carpet Benefit Gala and Premiere of the new Musical 'God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever'". Baruch College. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Theatre Row Onstage". Theatre Row. Retrieved February 16, 2023.
- ^ "2016 Awards", Harlem International Film Festival.
Bibliography
- Scott Harris, "Prince of the Pick up Picks Up The Pieces", Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1997
- Leonard Feather, Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Oxford University Press, 1999
- RPM Magazine, Volume 62, No. 10, October 9, 1995
- Life 1999 Universal Pictures