Bobby Bradford

Bobby Bradford is an American jazz cornetist, trumpeter, composer and teacher, born in Cleveland, Mississippi, in 1934 and based in Los Angeles. He played in Ornette Coleman's groups in the 1950s and early 1960s, and he is best known for his long partnership with the clarinetist John Carter. The two co-led a Los Angeles quartet from the late 1960s. Bradford grew up in Dallas and met Coleman again in Los Angeles in 1953. After Air Force service from 1954 to 1958 he rejoined Coleman's quartet in New York from 1961 to 1963, and he plays on Coleman's Science Fiction (1972).