Herb Pomeroy, the trumpet player and band leader whose abilities to perform as a sensitive session player and produce band arrangements with edge were virtually unmatched in the 1950s, died August 11 in Gloucester, MA, at age 77.
In an era that produced a seeming endless supply of towering big band jazz trumpet virtuosos who were constantly recording, w…
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