tb, cor, 1870-1942 US, St. Joseph, Missouri
Musician / Composer of Brass and Pop
A.k.a. Arthur Willard Pryor
Trombone virtuoso and bandleader (September 22, 1870 - June 18, 1942) Having played about 10,000 solos in his career, Arthur Pryor was known as the "Paganini of the trombone". His playing expressed a lyricism coupled with dazzling technique that was perhaps unequaled for his time. Pryor came to the Sousa's Band as trombone soloist in 1892, leaving a position as conductor of the Stanley Opera Company. He became the star attraction of Sousa's Band, also serving as assistant conductor from 1895 to 1902. In 1903, the last year he played with Sousa before resigning to form his own band, Pryor was a part of the Sousa's Band's European tour. His solo performances were most favorably received. As director of his own band, he made six nationwide tours between 1903 and 1909 before settling in to less stringent engagements at Asbury Park, New Jersey, Willow Park Grove, New Jersey, and Royal Palm Park, Miami, Florida. He retired in 1933. Pryor made some 1000 recordings with his band before 1930. He also directed the Sousa's Band in several recordings, even after he had left the group.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Trombone Solos | Arthur Pryor | 1984 | Album |
Sonata For Trombone And Piano / Hymn And Fuguing Tune No. 13 / Elegy For Mippy II / Sonata For Trombone And Piano / Annie Laurie (Air Varie) / Tres Psalmi Davidis (For Soprano And Trombone) | Ronald Borror With Lucy Shelton, Edmund Niemann - Halsey Stevens / Henry Cowell / Leonard Bernstein / Otto Luening / Arthur Pryor / Karl Kroeger | 1982 | Album |
Forever | Arthur Pryor | 1916 | Album |
Stabat Mater - Cujus Animam / Chopin's Funeral March | Arthur Pryor / Arthur Pryor's Band | 1915 | Album |
Serenade / Aida—The Fatal Stone (Final Duet, Act IV) | Louis Heine And Darius Lyons / Arthur Pryor And Emil Keneke | 1914 | Album |
Miserere From Il Trovatore / Chant Sans Paroles (Song Without Words) | Walter B. Rogers And Arthur Pryor / Vienna Quartet | 1910 | Album |
Dearie | Arthur Pryor | 1905 | Album |
Cheerfulness | Walter B. Rogers And Arthur Pryor And Arthur Pryor's Band | 1903 | Album |
I Can't Tell You Why I Love You, But I Do | Arthur Pryor | 1901 | Album |
Nearer My God To Thee | Arthur Pryor & Henry Higgins | 1898 | Album |
Answer | Henry Higgins & Arthur Pryor | 1897 | Album |
You're So Good Daddy | Arthur Pryor | 1897 | Album |
Miserere Fro Il Trovatore / Spring Song | Arthur Pryor And Emil Keneke / Victor String Quartet | Album | |
The Three Solitaires / Hornpipe Medley | Herbert L. Clarke, Emil Keneke and Arthur Pryor / John J. Kimmel | Album | |
In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree | Arthur Pryor | Album |
Arthur Pryor's Band Brass and Pop |