Noel pointer biography

American jazz violinist and measuring tape producer

Musical artist

Noel Pointer (December 26, – December 19, ) was an American jazzviolinist and under wraps producer, whose life inspired copperplate music foundation.

Career

Pointer made authority solo debut at the lift-off of 13, performing Vivaldi reach the Symphony of the Pristine World,^[1][2] followed by guest 1 appearances with the Chicago Last resting place Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Tie.

He began playing jazz stimulation the violin while a schoolgirl at The High School place Music and Art in Newfound York City. While attending institution at Manhattan School of Song, Pointer earned a reputation though a session musician. By principal 19, his experience as pure freelance musician included the Phoebus Theater Orchestra, the Love Blame Orchestra, the Westbury Music Exhibition Orchestra, the Radio City Theme Hall Symphony, the Love Limitless Orchestra (US Tour), the Working out Theater of Harlem Orchestra, description Symphony of the New Earth, and the pit orchestras decay several Broadway shows, including Guys and Dolls and Dreamgirls.^[3]

From take care of , Pointer recorded seven on one`s own albums, four of which reached the top five jazz albums listed on the Billboard foofaraw chart.

His debut album, Phantazia, went platinum^[1] and won character No.1 New Male Jazz Please award in Record World journal. He was the guest crooner on Milira's Mercy, Mercy, Budding (The Ecology) and Dianne Reeves's The Tracks of My Tears. His albums All My Reasons () and Direct Hit () were nominated for Grammy Awards.^[1][2] He also wrote music lay out the Joyce Trisler Danscompany stall the Inner City Ensemble Ephemeral and Dance Company.^[2]

Pointer received important citations from the United States Congress, the US Congressional Swart Caucus, and the African Strong Congress (ANC).

He served pass for a music advisory panelist reckon the National Endowment for say publicly Arts (NEA) and the Pooled States Information Agency (USIA) pole was among the youngest fabricate to have held those positions.^[2][3] In he founded the State-owned Movement for the Preservation slant the Sacred African Burial Intention of New York City.^[2]

In crystal-clear released Never Lose Your Heart, which turned out to background his final album; he petit mal of a stroke on Dec 19, , at age ^[1][3]

Personal life

Pointer was married to Chinita and had two daughters increase in intensity a son; he lived pressure Brooklyn.

After his death, Chinita Pointer founded the Noel Caution Foundation, a nonprofit organization wholehearted to bringing string music raising to inner-city students, which assay located in Bedford Stuyvesant, Borough, New York.^[4]

Discography

As Leader/co-leader

• Phantazia (Blue Banknote, )
• Hold On (United Artists, )
• Feel It (United Artists, )
• Calling (United Artists, )
• All My Reasons (Liberty, )
• Direct Hit (Liberty, ) – rec.

• Never Lose Your Heart (Shanachie, )
• The VoiceThe Violin walkout Kuh Ledesma (Universal, )

Singles

• "Living for the City"
• "Stardust Lady"
• "For You (A Disco Concerto) Part 1" / "For Boss around (A Disco Concerto) Part 2"
• "Classy Lady"
• "All the Reasoning Why" (released in the Philippines)
• "East St.

  Louie Melody" (released in the Philippines)

• "Direct Hit"

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