Bob Jenkins (4)

American jazz trombone player, conductor, songwriter, commercial producer and teacher for arts education. Jenkins had a musical education and performed as trombonist in his early years. He was active for Woody Herman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and others, Later, he became conductor for Bob Hope, The Four Lads and others. His main profession was to be composer and producer, both for music recordings and commercial music. Additionally he could conduct, compose and arrange a couple of movie scores and television shows. His best known commercials are Burger King, FORD, Gillette, Kellogg's, Lee Jeans, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, 7Up, Tony's Pizza Service, Union Pacific and Walmart. He composed the CNN news theme, made the score for "Out of the Wilderness", Walt Disney's "Iron Will". He yielded the Cannes Film Festival Gold Lion Award for his WCBS TV Promotional campaign, the Hollywood Radio and TV Society award for his Yellow Pages commercials and the New York Art Directors' award for his Union Pacific TV Campaign. In the age of retirement, he accepted a job as teacher for Post-Production, Orchestration, Scoring and Music Theory at the IPR college of Creative Arts in Minneapolis.