Herb Pomeroy's band in the early 60s was a thirteen piece band, with a much different book and flavor than the earlier sixteen piece group. The great lead trumpet Lennie Johnson went with Quincy Jones' and later Basie's bands, The book had many charts by Mike Gibbs, Chris Swansen, Arif Mardin and. of course Herb. Sam Rivers was the major tenor soloist, as well as both Dusko Goykovich

On 2007-08-13 07:18:56 -0700, "Steve Cooper" <steveco826@comcast.net> said: Beloved New England trumpet player and educator Herb Pomeroy died on Saturday, August 11th. Herb had an amazing career, was loved by so many jazz fans and musicians, and positively affected everything he touched. He played with Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton, toured briefly with Stan Kenton, was in the