Herb Robertson
Clarence 'C. "Herb" Robertson' was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. He was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on February 21, 1951, and attended the Berklee College of Music. He recorded solo albums and worked as a sideman for Tim Berne, Anthony Davis, Bill Frisell, George Gruntz, Paul Motian, Bobby Previte, and David Sanborn. Robertson died in Whiting, New Jersey, on December 10, 2024, at the age of 73.
Discography
As leader
- Transparency
- X-Cerpts: Live at Willisau
- Shades of Bud Powell
- Certified
- Falling in Flat Space with Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen
- Sound Implosion with Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen
- Ritual with Phil Haynes
- Brooklyn-Berlin with Phil Haynes
- Knudstock 2000
- Music for Long Attention Spans
- The Legend of the Missing Link
- Elaboration
- Sketches from the Other Side, For A.I.
- Parallelisms with Evan Parker and
- Real Aberration
- Celebrations with, Simon Nabatov, and
- Live at Alchemia with Marcin Oleś and Bartłomiej Oleś
- Passing the Torch with
- Diablo en musica - Improvisations with Rich Messbauer and Tom Sayek
- Party Enders with Dave Kaczorowski and Adrian Valosin
- Rumble Seat with Steve Rust and
As sideman
With Ray Anderson- Big Band Record with the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band
- The Ancestors
- Sanctified Dreams
- Tim Berne's Fractured Fairy Tales
- Pace Yourself
- Diminutive Mysteries (Mostly Hemphill)
- Nice View
- Open, Coma
With Mark Helias
- Split Image
- The Current Set
- Desert Blue
- Attack the Future
- Twirler
- Hydra
- Polyogue
- Soft Shell
- South Wind
- The Future of the Past
- Blueprint
- Undulation
- Summer Suite
- ''Eto''
With others
- Stefan Winter - The Little Trumpet
- Michael Moore Quintet – Home Game
- Lindsey Horner – Never No More
- The New York Composers Orchestra - Music by Marty Ehrlich, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, Doug Wieselman
- Bobby Previte – Music of the Moscow Circus
- Roberto Zorzi with Tim Berne, Bobby Previte, Mark Feldman, Herb Robertson, Matteo Ederle, Percy Jones - The Bang
- Marc Ducret - News from the Front
- - Core Samples
- Anthony Davis - X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, An Opera in Three Acts
- Klaus König - The Song of Songs
- / Terry Jenoure - Auguries of Speed
- Paul Lytton Quartet - The Balance of Trade
- Lou Grassi's PoBand - Mo' Po
- Joe Fonda - From the Source
- Barry Guy New Orchestra - Inscape–Tableaux
- Jay Rosen Trio - Drums 'n Bugles
- Dominic Duval with Herb Robertson, Bob Hovey, Jay Rosen - Asylem
- Joe Lovano – Viva Caruso
- The Fonda / Stevens Group - Twelve Improvisations
- Mokuto - Dressed Like a Horse
- Gerry Hemingway Quartet – The Whimbler
- Lou Grassi Quartet - Avanti Galoppi
- Lou Grassi's PoBand - Infinite Potential
- Barry Guy New Orchestra - Oort–Entropy
- Stefan Winter - Der Kastanienball / The Chestnut Ball - The Fall of Lucrezia Borgia, "audio film"
- Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra - Negra Tigra
- Alípio C. Neto Quartet – The Perfume Comes Before the Flower
- Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra - Harmos - Live in Schaffhausen
- 100nka & Herb Robertson – Superdesert
- Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra with Irène Schweizer – Radio Rondo/Schaffhausen Concert
- Essex Improvisor's Collective "Lifting The Light" Fred Taylor Music 2010