BOSTON, Aug. 21 (AP) — Herb Pomeroy, a jazz trumpeter who played with Charlie Parker, backed Frank Sinatra and influenced generations of musicians in four decades as a teacher at Berklee College of Music and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died on Aug. 11 at his home in Gloucester, Mass. He was 77.
His death followed a long struggle with cancer, his daughter, Perry Pomeroy, said.
Mr. Pomeroy played with Parker, Stan Kenton, Max Roach and Sonny Rollins, and backed Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughan as well as Sinatra.
Irving Herbert Pomeroy III was born and raised in Gloucester and began playing music as a teenager. He spent a year at Harvard before leaving to become a full-time musician.
In addition to his daughter, his survivors include his wife, Dodie Gibbons; a son, Eden Pomeroy; four stepchildren; 11 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
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