caption death_date years_active label article_title name background birth_date instrument genre image origin birth_name
june 1955 3 october 2007 1940s & ndash ; 1970s verve records , atlantic records , cadence records , king lloyd trotman
 lloyd trotman non_vocal_instrumentalist 25 may 1923 bass jazz , r & b file : lloyd_nelson_trotman . jpg boston , massachusetts , united states lloyd nelson trotman
lloyd trotman

trotman became a session musician for atlantic records and other independent record companies and throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s he backed a wide variety of artists , including r&b artists such as varetta dillard , lavern baker , ruth brown , ray charles , al hibbler , big joe turner , nappy brown , linda hopkins , mickey `` guitar '' baker , chuck willis , ben e. king , the drifters -lrb- `` save the last dance for me '' -rrb- , sam cooke , james brown , pat thomas , the platters , everly brothers , screamin ' jay hawkins , clyde mcphatter , ivory joe hunter , jackie wilson , mickey and sylvia , the coasters , the clovers , the isley brothers , big maybelle .
memphis slim , brother john sellers , sister rosetta tharpe , otis blackwell , ray peterson , and cousin joe , dinah washington , and brook benton .
-lsb- 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,17,19 -rsb- .
trotman began playing the club scene -lrb- 52nd st. -rrb- in new york in 1945 , playing with the likes of duke ellington and billie holiday.one of his earliest recording sessions was on duke ellington 's 1950 album great times !
piano duets with billy strayhorn and oscar pettiford -lsb- 3 he worked with , traveled with , and recorded with many jazz artists including johnny hodges , woody herman , lawrence brown , bud powell , big al sears , henry `` red '' allen , coleman hawkins , jimmy scott , billy taylor , don wilkerson , billie holiday , lucky millinder , boyd raeburn , blanche calloway -lsb- 12,13,14,15 -rsb- .
as a session musician he worked for atlantic records , rca victor , mercury records , okeh records , vik records , cadence records , brunswick records and many other recording studios during the 1950s .
he played with the following musicians : sam `` the man '' taylor , king curtis .
panama francis , mickey baker , ernie hayes , al caiola and many others .
-lsb- 18 he was a member of alan freed 's rock & roll orchestra at the brooklyn paramount and fox theaters during the late 1950s .
he was a member of the apollo house band during the late 40 's and early 1950s .
trotman worked with the following producers and arrangers : ahmet ertegun , jerry wexler , leiber and stoller , quincy jones , jesse stone , sammy lowe , leroy kirkland and archie bleyer , hugo & luigi among others.he made hundreds of records during this time period , many of them major hits as listed in the discography below .
-lsb- 11,19,20,21 trotman played on the following t.v.shows : tommy dorsey show with henry `` red '' allen - -lrb- september 1954 -rrb- ; alan freed t.v.show - -lrb- may , july ,1957 -rrb- ; pm east-pm west with sam cooke - -lrb- may -- june 1961 -rrb- ; ed sullivan show with paul anka - -lrb- april 1963 -rrb- .
he worked with henry `` red '' allen at the newport jazz festival -lrb- july 5 .
1959 -rrb- he played the new york world 's fair wonder world-aqua show -lrb- april -- july 1964 -rrb- .
he also did the broadway play `` flora the red menace '' with liza minnelli -lrb- may -- july 1965 -rrb- trotman continued to play many weekend nightclub dates into the early 1980 's .
after retiring from the music business , he became a loan officer at islip national bank .
mostly , trotman was devoted to his family-gertrude , his wife of 62 years ; and his three children-linda , timothy , and nelson .
they have resided in huntington , long island since 1962 .
trotman received many awards and had newspaper and magazine articles written about his career .
he gave interviews and spoke with high school classes , senior citizen centers , and community groups about his life and career .
many of these are listed under external links listed below or can be found under his name on the internet .
lloyd trotman died , aged 84 , on october 3 , 2007 on long island , and is buried at pinelawn memorial park , farmingdale , new york .
