found: African American National Biography, accessed December 28, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cecil Vernon Bridgewater; trumpeter, educator, composer / arranger, soldier; born 10 October 1942 in Urbana, Illinois, United States; student at Marquette Grade School in Champaign, Illinois; head of the trumpet section at the University of Illinois School of Music; in 1964 enlisted in the U.S. Army and was accepted into the 25-th Infantry Army Band; from 1968 to 1970 toured the Soviet Union and Europe with the University of Illinois band; in 1969 formed the Bridgewater Brothers Band with his brother, the saxophonist Ronald Scott Bridgewater; joined the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in New York City; worked with Horace Silver (1970), Max Roach (1971), Art Blakey (1972), Jimmy Heath (1974-1976), Lena Horne (1982-1983), Mercer Ellington (1985-1986), Grover Mitchell, Richard Davis, and the Count Basie Orchestra with Frank Foster; in 1997 received a Grammy nomination for his arrangement of the song "Undecided")
