Sam Dockery, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSam Dockery
American musician
Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1929
Date of Death: 23-Dec-2015
Profession: jazz musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Sam Dockery
- Samuel Dockery (1929 – December 21, 2015), nicknamed Sure-Footed Sam, was a hard bop pianist and well-respected musician on the Philadelphia jazz scene since the early 1950s.
- Dockery was born in Camden, New Jersey.
- He appears on 11 recordings as the pianist for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and composed "Sam's Tune" which appears on their 1957 Blue Note recording Ritual.
- In 1963 he was the pianist for Betty Carter's extended engagement at Birdland, and headed The Sam Dockery Trio in Philadelphia during the 1990s.
- He also taught at Philadelphia's University of the Arts.
- He died in 2015, aged 86.
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