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Terry Plumeri, 1944-2016
Composer, conductor and double bassist Terry Plumeri died at his home in Dunnellon, Florida, on March 31, 2016, at the age of 71.
A versatile musician whose career encompassed jazz, classical music and more than 50 film and television scores, Plumeri was best known to film-music listeners for Black Eagle, Sometimes They Come Back, One False Move and Death Wish V: The Face of Death.
John Terryl Plumeri was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 28, 1944, and grew up in Tampa, Florida. He began studying music at ten and took up the double bass while attending Chamberlain High School. He subsequently studied at the Manhattan School of Music with Robert Brennand, principal bassist of the New York Philharmonic, and served in the United States Air Force Band. While working as a bassist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., he also studied composition and conducting with Antal Doráti.
Plumeri initially established himself as a jazz musician. During the late 1960s and 1970s he performed with artists including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Cannonball Adderley, Yusef Lateef and Quincy Jones, and toured and recorded extensively with Roberta Flack between 1969 and 1974. He played both acoustic and electric bass on albums including Chapter Two, Quiet Fire and the Grammy-winning Killing Me Softly, for which he also wrote “Conversation Love.” His lyrical approach to the bowed bass became one of his particular musical trademarks. Read more…
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