Wayne Dockery

Wayne Dockery is a double bass player of Jazz American born the June 26th 1941 with Camden in the New Jersey.
“I tried not to become musician, but I could not resist” , says it itself.

Biography

His/her father, his grandmother and his aunt are pastors; his/her mother is pianist, her seven brothers and sisters, all musicians: his/her older brother, Sam Dockery, will be during some time the pianist of Art Blakey. Wayne Dockery bathes thus in the Gospel since its childhood, and, as of the twelve years age, knows the medium of the Jazz by his/her brother. To the university, it is plunged in the study of the Classical music in answer to the hostility of a professor of music which launched to him that “the Blacks cannot sing just and that one will be able to never make traditional musicians of them”. It leaves the university at the end of three years.

During the Sixties, Wayne Dockery directs its own training, and makes ox with John Coltrane with Philadelphia. At the end of the decade, he learns the tuba in fifteen days to integrate the orchestra of the army and not to be sent to the Vietnam. Once demobilized, it becomes teaching but, for lack of stations in music, it teaches the history and mathematics. In parallel, he is taxi driver and continuous to play of the Contrebasse, which he gives up a few years later to work in a company of loan. But he resigns soon to return to the music.

In 1971, it belongs to the Jazz Messengers of Art Blakey, then plays with Sony Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Sony Stitt, George Benson (1974), Elvin Jones and Stan Getz (1979), for a round with the Brésil. While returning to New York, Wayne Dockery assembles its own group, “Wayne Dockery Con Alma”, but dissolves it quickly.

With beginning of the year 90, it settles with Paris and becomes the regular Contrebassiste of archie Shepp.

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