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Gregory Charles Royal at the 2016 Harlem International Film Festival

Gregory Charles Royal, also known as Chuck Royal, is an American musician, trombonist, composer, writer, co-founder of The BeBop Channel Corporation, the former parent owner of JazzTimes.[1] [2] founder of the New York Jazz Film Festival, a former judge on America's Hot Musician.[3][4] and the former artistic director of the American Youth Symphony (AYS) in Washington, D.C.[5]

Early life and education

As a student at Howard University,[6] he received the 1982 DownBeat Magazine Student Music Award for Jazz Vocal Group: Graduate College Outstanding Performance in the Jazz Instrumental Soloist Category.[7] He graduated from Howard University with a Master of Music in Jazz Studies.[5]

Career

Royal played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1989–99), Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers,[8] Slide Hampton and his World of Trombones[9] and Howard University Jazz Ensemble.[10] He has appeared onstage as a trombonist with the Broadway shows Five Guys Named Moe[11] and Jelly's Last Jam.[12]

Royal has also written and appeared in the Off-Broadway production God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever, presented in March 2012 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center,[13] and in 2022 at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York.[14]

Royal wrote and appeared in the short film World's Not for Me, in which he plays a jazz musician who awakens from a near 30 year coma to find a world he no longer recognizes musically, culturally or financially. The film won the Harlem Spotlight Best Narrative Short Award at the Harlem International Film Festival in September, 2016.[15]

References

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Bibliography

  • Scott Harris, "Prince of the Pick up Picks Up The Pieces", Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1997
  • Leonard Feather, Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Oxford University Press, 1999
  • RPM Magazine, Volume 62, No. 10, October 9, 1995
  • Life 1999 Universal Pictures

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