Individual Details
Irving Herbert POMEROY III
(15 Apr 1930 - 11 Aug 2007)
Events
| Birth | 15 Apr 1930 | Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts | |||
| Graduated | 1949 | of Williston Academy - Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts | |||
| Education | Aft 1949 | at Harvard, studying denistry but left to study music - Cambridge, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | |||
| Education | Abt 1950 | at Schillinger House where he majored in theory, composition, piano and trumpet - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | |||
| Occupation | trumpet player for Charlie Parker and Charlie Mariano - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | ||||
| Miscellaneous | toured with Lionel Hampton before organizing his own 13 piece band - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | ||||
| Miscellaneous | went on tour with Stan Kenton | ||||
| Miscellaneous | 24 Aug 1957 | performed with his Jazz Band in a battle against Maynard Ferguson's at the North Shore Jazz Festival - Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts | |||
| Occupation | Abt 1967 | professor at Berklee College of Music - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | |||
| Occupation | Bef 1974 | was called by Duke Ellinton one of "America's Jazz treasures" | |||
| Miscellaneous | Abt 1985 | founder & music director of the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble - Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts | |||
| Miscellaneous | 1996 | inducted into the International Association of Jazz Educators Hall of Fame | |||
| Miscellaneous | 1997 | inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Education Hall of Fame | |||
| Miscellaneous | 2007 | awarded a lifetime achievement award from Salem State College - Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts | |||
| Occupation | Bef 11 Aug 2007 | jazz trumpeter and music teacher at Berklee College of Music and MIT - Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts | |||
| Death | 11 Aug 2007 | at home of cancer - Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | Living |