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Stacy Rowles was born on September 11, 1955 to jazz pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles. Picking up an old trumpet in the family home she took right to it. She first performed with her father at the Monterey Jazz Festival and for a period she studied with vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake.

Perpetually undiscovered in America except on the West Coast but was better known in Europe. Stacy made her name partly in the company of her father, with whom she often played until shortly before his death in 1996.

She played restful, melodic solos with a warm tone and sang in a wise, honest voice, shy but swinging. She recorded her debut and only album Tell It Like It Is in 1984. Rowles recorded albums with her father titled I’m Glad There Is You, Me and the Moon and Looking Back. She also recorded with the Ben Sluijs Quartet and Frank Mantooth.

For a stretch in the early ’90s, father and daughter shared a weekly gig at Linda’s, a Los Angeles jazz club. On her own, Stacy also played regularly in several all-female jazz groups, including the all-female quintet the Jazz Birds, Maiden Voyage, in both of which she played alongside the trumpeter Betty O’Hara, the Jazz Tap Ensemble, the DIVA Big Band and the European band Witchcraft, with which she had toured since 2002.

Trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer Stacy Rowles who had been active on the Los Angeles jazz scene since the 1980s, passed away from complications due to a car accident on October 30, 2009 at her home in Burbank, Calif. She was 54.

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