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Sam Dockery

Sam Dockery is credited on 291 releases across 40 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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291

Pressings credited

40

Albums

8

Decades active

44

In collections

Biography

Samuel Dockery (1929 – December 21, 2015), nicknamed Sure-Footed Sam, was a hard bop pianist and well-respected musician on the Philadelphia jazz scene since the early 1950s. Dockery was born in Camden, New Jersey. He appears on 11 recordings as the pianist for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and composed "Sam's Tune" which appears on their 1957 Blue Note recording Ritual. In 1963 he was the pianist for Betty Carter's extended engagement at Birdland, and headed The Sam Dockery Trio in Philadelphia during the 1990s. He also taught at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. He died in a nursing home in 2015, aged 86. His brother was bassist Wayne Dockery.

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291 releases · 40 albums · active 1957–2023

  • Performance · 320

Studios: Swedien Recording Studio · Webster Hall · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Pacific Jazz Studios

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