Background
Dockery was born in Camden, New Jersey.
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- Discography With Art Blakey Originally (Columbia, 1956) - unreleased until 1982 Hard Bop (Columbia, 1956) Originally (Columbia, 1956 ) Drum Suite (Columbia, 1956) Mirage (Savoy, 1957) Ritual: The Modern Jazz Messengers (Pacific Jazz, 1957) Selections from Lerner and Loewe's. (Vik, 1957) A Night in Tunisia (Vik, 1957) Cu-Bop (Jubilee, 1957) Tough! (Cadet, 1957 ) Hard Drive (Bethlehem, 1957) With Clifford Brown The Beginning and the End (Columbia, 1973) - 1956 performance recorded in Philadelphia.
Sam Dockery
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Career
He appears on 11 recordings as the pianist for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and composed "Sam"s Tune" which appears on their 1957 Blue Note recording Ritual. In 1963 he was the pianist for Betty Carter"s extended engagement at Birdland, and headed The Sam Dockery Trio in Philadelphia during the 1990s. He also taught at Philadelphia"s University of the Arts.
He died in 2015, aged 86.
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Discography With Art Blakey Originally (Columbia, 1956) - unreleased until 1982 Hard Bop (Columbia, 1956) Originally (Columbia, 1956 ) Drum Suite (Columbia, 1956) Mirage (Savoy, 1957) Ritual: The Modern Jazz Messengers (Pacific Jazz, 1957) Selections from Lerner and Loewe's. (Vik, 1957) A Night in Tunisia (Vik, 1957) Cu-Bop (Jubilee, 1957) Tough! (Cadet, 1957 ) Hard Drive (Bethlehem, 1957) With Clifford Brown The Beginning and the End (Columbia, 1973) - 1956 performance recorded in Philadelphia.
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