Cyril James Touff (born on March 4, 1927 in Chicago; died January 24, 2003 in Evanston, Illinois) was a jazz bass trumpeter. He was one of the few jazz musicians known as a bass trumpeter. He was also associated with West coast jazz even though he spent most of his life in Chicago. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, The City of Big Shoulders The 312 Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook Incorporated March 4, 1837 Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Incorporated City in 1872. ... Bass trumpet in C with rotary valves The bass trumpet is a type of low trumpet which was first developed during the 1820s in Germany. ... West coast jazz is a form of jazz music that developed around Los Angeles at about the same time as hard bop jazz was developing in New York City, in the 1950s and 1960s. ...
He started on piano at age 6 and went on to play xylophone and saxophone before settling on trumpet. He served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946 and in the military he played trombone. After the war he switched to bass trumpet and worked with Woody Herman among others. Xylophone in Bali 1937 The xylophone (from the Greek meaning wooden sound) is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in Indonesia (Nettl 1956, p. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States armed forces and has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913–October 29, 1987), better known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and Big band leader. ...
Touff was a member of the Woody Herman Orchestra during 1953-56; he recorded during this era as a member of the Herdsman, with the Nat Pierce-Dick Collins nonet and as a leader of his own Pacific Jazz album (1955) which in 1997 was reissued on CD.
Touff later recorded twice as a leader for Argo (a dixieland date from 1956-57 and a 1958 cool session).
After his Herman years, CyTouff moved back to Chicago, worked in the studios, performed jazz in local clubs and recorded with Chubby Jackson and Lorez Alexandria in 1957, with Fred Wacker in 1965 and with the group Hyde Park After Dark in 1981.
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