THE USUAL SUSPECTS

LEGENDS SPOTLIGHT

UAN RASEY

Uan playing the main theme to "Chinatown". In my opinion, one of the greatest pieces of music ever put to film - by the late, great Jerry Goldsmith and played impeccably by Uan.

http://www.lastudiomusicians.net/Uan - Chinatown.mp3

Uan playing "the blues" on "An American In Paris".

http://www.lastudiomusicians.net/Uan - American In Paris.mp3

Ask any trumpet player in town to recommend a teacher, and you will hear one name: Uan Rasey.

This is the man who knows, the man who played first trumpet on the great MGM soundtracks from the Golden Age of Hollywood: ''An American in Paris,'' ''Singing in the Rain,'' ''Gigi,'' ''West Side Story,'' ''My Fair Lady,'' ''Cleopatra'' -- the man who handled the big pictures right on down to ''Chinatown,'' ''Pennies from Heaven'' and ''High Anxiety.''

Here is what he told a pupil who went for a lesson not long ago:  ''Play it lovely, thoughtful, reverent... play it nicely,'' he said. ''It's easy to blow loud and harsh. Play it reverently with a nice sound. Even when you play loud, make it reverent. Make it sound like somebody saying something nice to you.''

So on Nov. 18, 1996, there came to be many people gathered at at the Ventura Club in the Valley, all saying something nice to Uan, who has been playing lovely, thoughtful and reverent for nearly 60 years.

He learned to play in Glasgow, Mont., where he had to keep up with his two sisters, Jean and Adelle. They were all under the tutelege of their mother, Una, who transposed a couple of letters to give Uan his name. Soon he too was transposing, although he was at first unaware of this.

''I played 'Carnival of Venice' when I was 13 years of age,'' he remembered, looking back from the age of 75. ''I played it a half tone too low, in the key of B, because I just had a record to learn it from. We just had an old windup, and that's as high as the record would go.''

By the time he was 18, Rasey had polished his chops in Glasgow and L.A., where his family moved, and landed a job playing first trumpet in the big band of Sonny Dunham, a virtuoso trumpet player out of the Casa Loma Orchestra.

Every year they played the Palladium in Hollywood and every year, Rasey recalled, ''a guy named George Wendt, they called him Fat Wendt, used to audition the trumpeters when they came to the Palladium. He offered me a job to play with him at Columbia Pictures. I turned him down, I thought it was corny.

''So luckily, I got a blister on my lip and I couldn't play. I had to come back to Los Angeles and plane it down. I had to lay off for three months before it healed up. Then I got the biggest mouthpiece I could find down at Lockie's music store, it was like a 1A Bach. And I played the same mouthpiece the rest of my life.''

He took Wendt up on the Columbia Pictures offer but soon landed in the radio studios, where he played on ''Your Hit Parade,'' ''Sound Off,'' ''The Telephone Hour'' ''The Firestone Show,'' ''The Westinghouse Symphonic Hour,'' ''Lux Radio Theater,'' ''The Jack Benny Show,'' ''The George Burns Show,'' ''The Paul Whiteman Hour'' and the one where he had the most fun, ''The Kraft Music Hall'' featuring Bing Crosby, with John Scott Trotter leading the band and Billy May writing the charts.

''We liked it because Billy would write things out. His things were quiet. He might spend three or four hours writing something that he wanted to do. But he could make Bing's arrangements in 45 minutes. He'd write -- oh, maybe a Bach thing or a Mahler thing -- and see if anybody could recognize it. He might write it backwards, and see if you could guess what it was.''
So Rasey admits to having a great time there for about five years, and then came the offer in 1949 of the first trumpet chair in the MGM Studios orchestra, under a contract that permitted him to play and record at other studios and in other orchestras.

These were led by such figures as Leonard Bernstein, Eric Leinsdorf, John Williams, Dmitri Tiompkin, Miklos Rosza, Alfred Newman, Leopold Stowkowski, Andre Previn, Adolph Deutsch, Billy May, Nelson Riddle, Zubin Mehta, Felix Slatkin, Leonard Slatkin, John Green and Lennie Hayton, to name a few. It was quite a learning experience. Playing in such renowned orchestras, ''you have to listen and be aware of each other,'' Rasey found. ''That's why we're very lucky in music because you have to think abstractly, to perceive before you play. You try to read the music ahead so you can even do it the first time. As a first trumpet player you try to do that, not always successfully. You try to make it so the leader thinks you're helping him, try to go a little beyond what he wants to have.''

Rasey has been out of the full-time recording scene for many years now, and he seldom finds it necessary to listen to himself on the old videos.

''It's just work. You go to work and do the best you can and go home.'' Nowadays there's the teaching, which brings him students from all over the world, including top flight recording musicians like Arturo Sandoval and Jack Sheldon. ''I try to stay ahead of them,'' muttered Rasey, who also feels a little humble about this tribute stuff.

''I'm usually the one who gives the party,'' he pointed out. It was Rasey who put together tributes in recent years for Alvino Rey, Jimmy Rowles, Bill Miller, Gerald Wilson and Zeke Zarchy, among others. On this night in 1996, it was Rasey's turn. ''This way we tell people we love 'em before they die,'' Rasey remarked. ''I have a picture taken in 1939, when I went to MGM, and of the nine brasses, only two have survived, Si Zentner and myself.''

Want to hear most of these studio icons together in the same band? Check out Frank Sinatra's "Luck Be A Lady"

http://www.lastudiomusicians.net/04 - Luck Be A Lady.mp3

MILT BERNHART

Bernhart was as good-natured a man as jazz ever produced, self-deprecating and always able to see the humor in a situation. He began playing the tuba at ten but had switched to trombone by high school. Having shuffled through Chicago and Philly, he was hired for Boyd Raeburn's experimental big band in 1942 and gigged with musicians like Teddy Powell for a year or so afterwards.

Bernhart's career was sidelined by Army service, but in 1946 Stan Kenton picked up on the young trombone talent. Bernhart's first solo spotlight came that year, in Kenton's smash hit The Peanut Vendor, but his relationship with the bandleader was tumultuous. Bernhart vacillated between the Raeburn and Kenton bands for several years, interrupted once by a stint with the ill-tempered Benny Goodman which became joke fodder for years thereafter.

In 1955 Bernhart made the first of his very few records as a leader. Modern Brass (RCA) was a stellar disc featuring Maynard Ferguson, Shorty Rogers, Pete Candoli, bassist Red Mitchell, tubaist Ray Siegel, French hornist John Graas, and other West Coasters. That same year he joined the Columbia Records studio orchestra, which brought him steady work on TV and film scores like The James Dean Story and Peter Gunn. He backed Sinatra both on record dates and in The Man with the Golden Arm, and participated in perhaps hundreds more sessions during his studio days.

In 1986 Bernhart was elected president of the Big Band Academy of America, an arts organization which encouraged continued study and performance of the big-band legacy. It was his true love, along with the music of Kenton, which he actively supported through the Academy by arranging regular performances. At Kentonian gatherings Bernhart's wit was always a highlight, marked by funny solos or skewed versions of songs like Everything Happens To Me sung in his hilariously mild-mannered way. He frequently toured with artists of all calibers and was one of the West Coast's principal cheerleaders for live jazz.

HAL BLAINE

WEBSITE: www.halblaine.com

ROGER BOBO

Brass Legend, Virtuoso Soloist, World Renown Teacher… These are just a few catch phrases associated with Roger Bobo. He is in demand world wide as a teacher of all brass instruments, adjudicator at major international competitions, and as a conductor.

Roger Bobo currently resides in Japan and teaches at the Musashino School of Music in Tokyo. Prior to this move to Tokyo he served as faculty at the Fiesole School of Music near Florence, Italy, at the Lausanne Conservatory in Switzerland, and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.

Orchestras around the world have seen Roger Bobo as soloist, conductor and coach for brass sections preparing major symphonic repertoire. His students currently occupy positions in major symphony orchestras and universities throughout the world, and several have gone on to develop successful solo careers of their own.

As a conductor, Roger Bobo has a strong background playing for and studying the rehearsal and conducting technique of the greatest conductors in the world. During his twenty-five years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he had close associations with Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini and Andre Previn, not to mention the many world class guest conductors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A list of orchestras that have seen Roger Bobo as soloist, conductor or teacher would fill volumes. His career has covered as many continents as it has decades.

Films:

Return of the Jedi (1983)
Close Encounters (1977)
Witches of Eastwick (1987)
God Father II (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
The Swarm (1978)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Fitzwilly (1967)
The Couch Trip (1988)
The Ice Pirates (1984)
Waterland (1992)
Alien 2 (1986)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
The Color Purple (1985)
Doc (1971)
Silent Movie (1976)
Superman (1978)
Superman II (1980)
Prophecy (1979)
The Incredible Journey (1963)
The Barn Stormers
Dragnet the Movie (1987)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
White Knights (1985)
The End (1978)

Other Recordings:

Barbra Streisand
Frank Sinatra
Tony Bennett
Earth, Wind and Fire
Gerry Mulligan
Jaco Pastorius
Bill Mays
Bonny Raite
Bob Hope
Don Ellis
Jimmy Webb
And more!

BUD BRISBOIS

Bud playing lead on the "Jetsons Theme"

http://www.lastudiomusicians.net/The_Jetsons.mp3

Bud showing his legendary lead and "high chops" on Frank Sinatra's "Luck Be A Lady"

http://www.lastudiomusicians.net/04 - Luck Be A Lady.mp3

Bud playing lead on Rosemary Clooney's "Mack The Knife" (with Perez Prado)

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Austin Dean "Bud" Brisbois (April 11, 1937 - June 1978) was a jazz and studio trumpet player. He played all styles, including big band lead, jazz soloing, pop, rock, country, Motown, and classical, but it was his high-note playing that set him apart. At his peak he was one of the most accurate and consistent of all high-note trumpeters, and his range has never been equaled.

Brisbois was born in Edina, Minnesota and began studying the trumpet at age 12. He was mainly self-taught, and reportedly had most of his range before leaving high school. He briefly attended University of Minnesota before moving to Los Angeles, where he would live most of his life, when not touring. In September 1958 he joined Stan Kenton's orchestra, where he took over the "scream" parts written for Maynard Ferguson, in addition to playing much of the lead trumpet. Bud toured with Kenton's band until the early 60's, recording over 30 albums. Around 1963 he left Kenton to work in the Los Angeles recording studios.

Bud worked as a studio musician in L.A. from around 1963 to 1975, recording over a hundred albums. A complete listing of all his work is impossible, but some of the performers he recorded with are: Herb Alpert, Tony Bennett, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Duke Ellington, The Fifth Dimension, The Four Freshmen, Lionel Hampton, Herbie Hancock, Harry James, Henry Mancini, Dean Martin, Billy May, The Monkees, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Rawls, Lalo Schifrin, Bud Shank, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, and Nancy Wilson. In addition, he played lead trumpet on the theme songs to Hawaii Five-O and The Jetsons.

In early 1973 Bud formed the rock group Butane, featuring himself as singer and trumpeter. They recorded a demo and played regular gigs over the next two years, at one point performing on the hit tv show The Midnight Special, but never secured a record contract and eventually disbanded.

In 1975 following the breakup of his second marriage, Bud began having increasing problems controlling his manic depression, from which he had suffered all his life. He quit the music business entirely and moved to Beverly Hills, where for a time he worked as a Porsche salesman. Eventually he began playing again and in mid-1978 began performing again, including a memorable guest spot with the jazz-rock group "Matrix". Less than a week later, he committed suicide.

CONTE CANDOLI

WEBSITE: www.candoli.com

PETE CANDOLI

June 28, 1923 - January 11, 2008

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Pete playing "Boy Meets Horn"

WEBSITE: www.candoli.com

Pete Candoli (born Walter Joseph Candoli in Mishawaka, Indiana on June 28, 1923) is an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast of the US. He has played with the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, and many others, and has worked extensively in the studios of the recording and television industries. Consequently, Pete has played on over 5000 record dates.

Pete (Walter) Candoli is one of the most under-appreciated musicians in jazz. His early notoriety rested mainly on his bravura high-note work with Woody Herman's Herd during World War II. During that brief period he was often regarded as second only to Ellington's Cat Anderson in his ability to stretch solos into the trumpet's upper register. This reputation was exacerbated by Herman's decision to have him appear in a Superman costume for high note solos on "Apple Honey". Many synopses of his career suggest that his most notable accomplishment during this period was bringing his equally, but differently, talented younger brother Conte into the big band major league.

In the end, however, this is misleading. It is difficult to construe the rest of Candoli's career as resting on these limited but formidable skills. After 1945, Candoli worked with several bands including notably that of Stan Kenton. Later, he drifted into the "West Coast Jazz" and studio scenes. Despite his range, he rarely played lead, reserved instead for feature roles. He became a favorite collaborator of many influential musicians and performers, including Peggy Lee, Henry Mancini, and Frank Sinatra. He was widely sought for studio work.

Pete Candoli's solo work is notable for his eloquent roles, supportive of the efforts of others. His adroit use of staccato is both notable and rare among modern jazz trumpeters. Despite his reputation for his high-note ability, he rarely used it unless explicitly called for by the conductor, the band leader, or the composer. More often, his solos began with low-to-mid-register staccato riffs which built into rolling cadenzas and ending, when appropriate, in high-note, bravura climaxes.

Strong evidence of his restraint can be found in his work on Peggy Lee's "Black Coffee", one of the first 33¨÷ rpm long-play vocal albums. Pete appears on all of the original 10" tracks (recorded in 1953; expanded in 1956 to 12" with a different set of musicians). Muted but felicitously omnipresent on all the 10" tracks, he performs open-horned on the last chorus of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", building from modest fills to a full-throated high-note climax that helps to make the song the centerpiece of the album and gives Lee arguable co-ownership of this song with Mary Martin.

Candoli performs sublimely on the two Mancini Peter Gunn albums, albeit as only one of similarly adroit group of musicians. He and his brother Conte were often seen playing in the background during scenes in "Mother's" nightclub. Most of Candoli's best solos are rather short. One of his best longer solos was wasted in the Peter Gunn medley on a forgettable concert album of Mancini's. It is an almost quintessential Pete Candoli performance in the staccato-to-climax mode described earlier. He is also the attributed soloist for the superb high-note work in the "Dance at the Gym" sequence in the movie version of West Side Story.

Candoli married several times, usually to other musicians, including singer-actress Betty Hutton and (post Ernie Kovacs) the singer Edie Adams, with whom he often toured. He also did some acting work, both in Hollywood and in summer stock. He has two daughters, Tara Clair and Carolyn, from different marriages. He is an avid animal lover and born under the astrology sign Cancer.

His younger brother, Conte, achieved an arguably stronger critical reputation. They often worked together in anonymous recording gigs and in several joint albums on minor labels. Pete did not shine noticeably in these efforts, possibly because he adjusted to Conte's rather different and more conventional solo trumpet style. In particular, Pete almost never showed his extended range in any joint performance with his brother.

BUDDY CHILDERS

Marion "Buddy" Childers (b. February 12, 1926 - d. May 24, 2007) became famous in 1942, when Stan Kenton hired him at the tender age of 16 to be the lead trumpet in his band.

As Buddy himself later told the story to Steve Voce: "At the rehearsal he sat me down in the first trumpet chair, had the first trumpet player sit out. I played about eight or nine things in a row and the adrenalin was really flying that day. I was 16 I probably looked about 13, but I played considerably more maturely than that. 'Well, what do you want to do?' he said after that was over. 'I want to join your band.' 'But you're so young.' 'I gotta join your band,' I said. I had this thing in my mind that I had to join a name band at 16 or I'd never be able to make it as a musician. I was thinking of Harry James so young with Ben Pollack and then with Benny Goodman, and Corky Corcoran who joined Sonny Dunham when he was 16 and then became Harry James's leading soloist the next year. So I made it by three weeks. I only had a couple of months before I graduated but I wasn't interested in that, I was only interested in playing."

Buddy worked with Kenton for years, played with Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Les Brown, Charlie Barnet and others. He worked on TV and films, and put together a big band that recorded for Candid Records in the 1980s and 1990s.

Childers became a member of the Bahá'í Faith by 1982. He died from cancer on May 24, 2007, aged 81.

BUDDY COLLETTE 

WEBSITE: www.buddycollette.com

JAMES DECKER

James Decker was Professor of Horn at the University of Southern California for 35 years. He also taught horn at the California Institute of the Arts, California State University Los Angeles, University of California Long Beach, University of California Santa Barbara, and was the horn instructor at the Music Academy of the West for more than 25 years. He was the horn teacher and chamber music instructor at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival for 4 years and recently served on the faculty at the Kendall Betts Horn Camp. He was a member of  the board for the National Association of the Recording Arts and Sciences for talent scholarships and grants in classical music.

Most recently, James Decker was principal horn of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for over 20 years. Previous experience includes principal horn of Kansas City, assistant principal horn of the National Symphony, guest principal horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, principal horn of the Columbia Orchestra, including the CBS recordings with Bruno Walter and Igor Stravinsky, and principal horn for over 2,000 major motion pictures and television series.

He was a founding member of the Los Angeles Horn Club, which commissioned over 100 new works for various horn ensembles, and was one of the founders of the International Horn Society, serving as host for two Workshops.

VINCENT DeROSA

Vincent's AMAZING solos from "Rocky III". In my opinion, some of the most beautiful music ever recorded in film history. 

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Vincent playing "Nonet For Brass" by Alec Wilder with the Horn Club of Los Angeles

Descants: Vince DeRosa, James Decker

Horns: Richard Perissi, Bill Hinshaw

Bb Tubens: David Duke, Alan Robinson

F Tubens: George Hyde, Art Briegleb

Tuba: Tommy Johnson

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Vincent DeRosa was born into a musical family in Kansas City.  His father played clarinet and his mother was a singer.  The family moved to Chicago, and then later moved to Los Angeles.  Vince studied briefly with his uncle Vincent DeRobertus (who was on staff as a horn player at Paramount Studios), and the legendary Alfred Brain (uncle of Dennis Brain, and Principal Horn at 20^th Century Fox Studios).  Vince started his professional career at the age of seventeen in the horn section at 20^th Century Fox.  During World War II, he played in an Army recording orchestra based in Santa Ana.  After obtaining his release from the Army, Vince decided to try freelance recording in Los Angeles.  His first jobs were playing live radio broadcasts, and he was very successful at this type of work.

Mr. DeRosa is the most recorded brass player in history with a career spanning six decades.  He has played on more motion picture scores than any other musician, and his solo horn sound is legendary.  He has played as a featured artist on many television shows, records, and jingles.  Mr. DeRosa established the lush, rich sound of the Horn as a mainstay in all recording orchestras.  Consequently, film composers of today write for the horn now more than ever.  Mr. DeRosa has set the standard for several generations of horn players with his brilliant performances and state of the art teaching.  Among his students were his cousin Henry Sigismonti (Principal Horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta), George Price (long time third Horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic), and his nephew Jeffrey DeRosa (a busy studio horn player).  Mr. DeRosa began teaching at the University of Southern California in 1974.  His students at USC have gone on to excellent careers in all areas of music. He retired in 2005.

BOB DiVALL

CHUCK GENTRY

Although he started out as a clarinetist, it was on much lower-pitched horns that Chuck Gentry made his bread and butter. Gentry is one of the rare jazz gentry whose name shows up in credits complete with a military ranking--he was a seargent in the unit that made up Glenn Miller's Air Force Band from 1943 through 1944. At that time Gentry had been a professional musician for about a decade, beginning when he was hired for bandleader Ken Baker's Los Angeles outfit. Prior to that he had played clarinet in the school band in Sterling, Colorado and had kept up his musical interests throughout an initial career stab at becoming a teacher.

By the late '30s blackboards were the last this on his mind as he began checking out both baritone and bass sax parts in the reed section of the Vido Musso ensemble. From here he went to even bigger bands, Harry James for two years beginning in 1940, Benny Goodman for about a fourth that amount of time beginning in the summer of 1941 and then Jimmy Dorsey until Uncle Sam demanded a change of procedure. After the war he was busy with Artie Shaw, Jan Savitt and then another short stint with Goodman. From about 1947 Gentry began to work more and more in the studios, eventually becoming almost a part of the scenery in certain Los Angeles recording factories. Much of the pop material he appeared on is high quality, including Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sides. He should not be confused with the guitarist of the same name.

CONRAD GOZZO

Conrad's legendary recording of "Trumpeter's Prayer"

http://www.lastudiomusicians.net/Trumpeter's Prayer.mp3

Conrad J. Gozzo (1922-1964) was an American trumpet player. Gozzo was a member of the NBC Hollywood staff orchestra at the time of his death in October, 1964. His untimely death was due to the abuse of alcohol.

Gozzo, lead trumpeter on the Glen Gray and Harry James "remakes", recorded extensively with arrangers such as Van Alexander, Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Ray Conniff, Jerry Fielding and Shorty Rogers, as well as accompanying Frank Sinatra. Gozzo always played lead trumpet on all of the recordings of his close friend, Henry Mancini. He was heard on many major live television shows aired on the NBC network, originating from Hollywood, including the Dinah Shore Show, between 1955 and 1964. Gozzo also played on several movie soundtracks, such as The Glenn Miller Story, The Benny Goodman Story, Bye Bye Birdie, Call Me Madom, Ben-Hur and Cleopatra.

"The Goz," as he is often called was known for having the largest, most sonorous sound to ever ring through a trumpet's bell. He shaped the concept of "the lead trumpet sound" in the swing era, characterized as a broad and beautiful tone that leads the big band and blankets it with a powerful sound. Gozzo's lead trumpet concept remained the standard to which all others were compared throughout swing era until lead trumpeters like Lin Biviano revamped the style to a more exciting, in-your-face sound.

Conrad Gozzo's classic recording of "Trumpeter's Prayer," composed by Tutti Camarata for Gozzo remains a must-have for every aspiring trumpeter.

Appropriate rumors (to which their truth is questionable, but interesting nonetheless) include:

• When Glenn Miller needed a lead trumpet player, his friends pledged for him to hire Conrad Gozzo. Upon hearing Gozzo, Glenn remarked that he had never heard a trumpet sound like that.
• Frank Sinatra would work his schedule around Gozzo's to ensure that The Goz was his lead trumpet player at every possible show.
• Famed trumpeter Bobby Shew sat in a section with Conrad Gozzo and thought there was something wrong with his trumpet.
• Upon recording his signature song, "Trumpeter's Prayer," in one take, Gozzo received a standing ovation from the studio members.

BILL GREEN

MARIO GUARNERI

WEBSITE: www.guarnerijazz.com

Mario Guarneri's career has encompassed everything from playing with Louis Armstrong at the age of 13 to 15 seasons with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Guarneri has recorded solo albums on the Crystal and Nonesuch labels, played principal trumpet with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for ten seasons, and appeared on over 300 television and motion picture soundtracks, (most notably as soloist on The Godfather III). He has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet, New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater and Radio City Music Hall orchestras. His teachers include James Stamp, Lester Remsen (University of Southern California) and William Vacchiano (Juilliard). Mr. Guarneri has lectured and performed at clinics and workshops across the United States, Europe and Asia. He is the inventor of the B.E.R.P., a teaching tool used by brass players all over the world. His most recent CD, From My Heart, with the Guarneri Jazz Quartet, was recorded live at the Conservatory.

JIM HORN

WEBSITE: www.jimhorn.com

The legendary saxophonist Jim Horn was born and raised in sunshine filled Los Angeles, CA. He began performing before crowds at his own junior high school dances. While still in his teens and in school, he started to get gigs at local nightclubs, sitting in with whatever band would welcome him. Though Elvis was king at the time, it was artists like Clifford Scott and Hank Crawford who held the young Jim Horn's interest; an interest that is reflected in his early musical stylings with the sax.

Jim Horn began to climb the steps to musical fame in the early '60s, working with guitarist Duane Eddy. Each performance was like a stepping stone, leading Horn onward to the next pinnacle. Before long, award-winning artists were asking for him by name and allowing him solo spots on some of their tunes.

If you're thinking that you have never heard much of Jim Horn's music, you are probably wrong. Over the years he has played saxophone on stage and on hit recordings for numerous outstanding artists, including Air Supply, Paul McCartney, Fifth Dimension, Garth Brooks, the Beach Boys, John Lennon, Diana Ross, the Carpenters, Rita Coolidge, Frank Sinatra, the Mamas and the Papas, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Ronnie Milsap, U2, Vince Gill, Wynonna, Barbra Streisand, Christopher Cross, Tina Turner, the Rolling Stones, and far too many more to name.

In 1972, Horn got the chance to record a solo debut album of his own, Through the Eyes of a Horn. It was released under the Shelter Records label, along with an album simply titled Jim's Horn. Later he moved to the major Warner Brother Records label to finish a couple more albums, Neon Nights and Work It Out. Horn has also recorded two tribute albums, Jim Horn: A Beatle Tribute and A Tribute to John Denver. Horn finished two albums for 1999, both under the Rhythm Records label. One is Christmas With Jim Horn, the other is titled The HIT List. This last album is filled with great memorable tunes like "Ride Like the Wind," "Good Vibrations," "Delta Lady," and "Summer Breeze." The hits that Jim has played on speak for him...

The Mamas and The Papas
John Denver
Delaney & Bonnie
Leon Russell *"Lady Blue"
Rita Coolidge
Joe Cocker *Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour *"Delta Lady"
Johnny Rivers *"Poor Side of Town"
Jackson Browne *"Running on Empty"
Ringo Starr *"Don't Go Where the Road Don't Go"
George Harrison *1971 Concert for Bangladesh *1974 Dark Horse Tour *"Cloud Nine"*"I Got My Mind Set On You"

Paul McCartney
John Lennon *"Pussycats" (with Harry Nilsson)
Harry Nilsson *"Pussycats" (with John Lennon)
Lionel Ritchie
Van Dyke Parks *Song Cycle

The Beach Boys *"Good Vibrations" *PET SOUNDS
Linda Ronstadt
Barbra Streisand
Frank Sinatra *"Strangers in the Night" (flute)
Elvis Presley
Joni Mitchell
The Carpenters *"For All We Know" (oboe)
Canned Heat *"Goin' Up the Country" (flute)
The Fifth Dimension *"Up, Up and Away" *"The Age of Aquarius"
Elton John *"Little Jeannie" (alto)
Toto *"Rosanna" *"Africa"
Smokey Robinson *"Tears of a Clown" (piccolo)
Neil Sedaka *"Laughter in the Rain"
Ronnie Milsap *"Lost in the Fifties Tonight"
The Rolling Stones *GOAT'S HEAD SOUP
Steely Dan *"Josie"/*AJA/*THE ROYAL SCAM
Roy Orbison
Diana Ross
Stevie Wonder "Ebony Eyes"
Tina Turner *"River Deep, Mountain High" (baritone)
U2 *"Angel of Harlem" (baritone)
Wynonna *Black & Wy Tour *"Tell Me Why"
Garth Brooks *"One Night a Day"
Eric Clapton *1971 Concert for Bangladesh
George Benson *"Turn Your Love Around"
Boz Scaggs *"Dirty Lowdown"
Righteous Bros. *"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" (baritone)
Seals & Crofts *"Summer Breeze"
Little Richard
Warren Zevon *"Excitable Boy" (tenor)
Duane Eddy *"Rockestra Theme" (with Paul McCartney)
David Letterman's CBS Orchestra, featuring Paul Shaffer
The Traveling Wilburys (Jeff Lynne, George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob
Dylan) *Volume 1 *Volume 3
Tom Petty
Spiral Staircase *"More Today Than Yesterday" (baritone)
Vince Gill *"I Can't Tell You Why"
Delbert McClinton *Never Been Rocked Enough
Billy Joel
Aaron Neville
Hank Williams Jr. *"Monday Night Football Theme" *BORN TO BOOGIE
Steve Cropper and Booker T. and the MG's *MEMPHIS (with Kioshiro) *1992 Tour
Christopher Cross *"Ride Like the Wind"

DICK "SLYDE" HYDE

JIM HUGHART

WEBSITE: www.jimhughart.com

Jim Hughart was born into a family of professional musicians in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He began his music studies at the age of five, studying piano with the renowned teacher, Estelle Bastien. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music Theory from the University of Minnesota. After graduation, he was drafted into the Army where he traveled throughout Europe for two years performing with the 7th Army Symphony Orchestra.

After his discharge from the Army, he joined Ella Fitzgerald, with whom he toured for three years. He settled in Southern California and has been very active in the recording studios since 1968, having participated in over 200 record albums, 300 motion picture scores, and countless television shows.

Some of the vocal artists with whom Hughart has performed and/or recorded are: Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Joe Williams, Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Steve Lawrence and Edye Gorme, Barbra Streisand, Lou Rawls, Singers Unlimited, Hi-Lo's, Diana Ross, Liza Minelli, Michael Feinstein, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Diane Shuur, Joao Gilberto, Blossom Dearie, Joan Baez, Vikki Carr, Rosemary Clooney, and many others.

Some of the instrumental artists with whom he has performed and/or recorded are: Joe Pass, Oscar Peterson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Tommy Flanagan, Jack Sheldon, Dave Marsh, Toots Thielemans, Buddy Collette, Frank Rosolino, Louie Bellson, Terry Gibbs, Herb Alpert, Johnny Smith, Jimmy Rowles, John Pisano, Sonny Stitt, Dave Grusin, Hubert Laws, Patrick Williams, Tom Scott, Bill Holman Big Band, Capp-Pierce Juggernaut, Supersax, Bob Florence Limited Edition, Glendale Symphony Orchestra, The New American Orchestra, American Jazz Philharmonic and many others.

Hughart was honored by NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) which presented him with the annual MVP (Most Valuable Player) Award the maximum of three times, resulting in his receiving the prestigious MVP Emeritus Award.

ALTERNATE BIO...

Like so many of the top studio musicians, he's a virtuoso jazz great in his own right, and he can be relied on to play any and all the styles in the studios, from classical to funk. He's been Ella's bassist, and Ellington's and Sinatra's, and he's had long associations with everyone from Joe Pass to Tom Waits.

After he won his third Most Valuable Player Award as presented by The Recording Academy, the maximum number allowable, he was honored with the MVP Emeritus Award. A small sample of the artists he's worked with: Oscar Peterson, Roy Clark, Johnny Rivers, Joni Mitchell, Sonny Stitt, the Beach Boys, Barney Kessel, Boz Scaggs, Lou Rawls, Adam Sandler, Peggy Lee, Wayne Newton, Nina Simone, David Axelrod, Sammy Davis Jr., Terry Gibbs, Tim Buckley, Rosemary Clooney, Milt Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Warne Marsh, Burt Bacharach, Joan Baez, Carmer McRae, Aaron Neville, Buddy Collette, Tony Bennett, Cannonball Adderley, the Osmonds, and Tori Amos. Trivia experts will want to note that he is probably the only musician who resigned from Sinatra's band twice (but under friendly circumstances both times!).

PLAS JOHNSON

WEBSITE: www.plasjohnson.com

Plas was born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, about sixty miles north of New Orleans. As teens, Plas and brother Ray formed a band, the Johnson Brothers Combo, that played in and around New Orleans for a number of years. Plas left New Orleans in 1951 to go on the road with the Chartes Brown Blues Band. The road, a stint in the Army and a permanent move to California followed. Plas attended the Westlake School of Music in Los Angeles for a year and a half, when his studies were derailed by an overloaded schedule of record dates. He was brought to the attention of Johnny Otis, who immediately added him to his blues aggregation. Johnny then introduced Plas to Dave Cavanaugh, who held an influential A&R position at Capitol Records, where he soon became a regular session sideman and soloist during Capitol's halcyon years.

Plas has been one of the most well-known and sought-after musicians around the California studio scene. He joined "The Merv Griffin Show" band, led by Mort Lindsey, in 1970, where he remained for the next fifteen years, joining an all-star line-up which also included such prominent instrumentalists as Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, Jake Hanna, Benny Powell, Jack Sheldon, Kai Winding and others.

Plas' recent recordings include his own albums, "Hot, Blue & Saxy," "Evening Delight" and "Christmas in Hollywood," and "Keep That Groove Going!" on Milestone, with Red Holloway. You may also find him around town occasionally with his own group, at jazz festivals around the world, and in the recording studios. Plas Johnson combines some of the best elements of jazz and blues and is admired and emulated by sax players worldwide

TOMMY JOHNSON

January 7, 1935 - October 16, 2006

Tommy's famous tuba part from the main title to "Jaws"

http://www.lastudiomusicians.net/tommyjaws.mp3

Tubist Tommy Johnson attended the University of Southern California where he earned a bachelor of music degree.  He has also done graduate work at USC, and at California State University at Northridge.

Mr. Johnson was a "first-call" tubist at the major motion picture studios and has recorded soundtracks for over 2000 movies dating back to 1958.  Some of these movies include Robin Hood, Back to the Future 1, 2, & 3, Jaws 1, 2, 3, & 4, Close Encounter of The Third Kind, Karate Kid I, II, & III, Police Academy I, II, III, IV, & V, Silverado, Indiana Jones, Star Trek I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII, & IX, The Natural, The Godfather 1, 2, & 3, A League of Their Own, Alien III, Batman Returns, Beetle Juice, Death Becomes Her, Unforgiven, The Babe, The Addams Family, Toy Story, Honeymoon in Vegas, Honey, Grumpier Old Men, Father of the Bride 2, Die Hard 1 & 2, Crimson Tide, Beethoven 1 & 2, Lethal Weapon I, II, III & IV, A Few Good Men, Bodyguard, Dracula, Waiting to Exhale, Under Siege I & II, The Last of the Mohicans, Flintstones Movie, Forrest Gump, Lion King, Maverick, Richie Rich, Santa Claus, The Quick & the Dead, Batman Forever, True Lies, Wyatt Earp, Toy Story 2, Seven, Chain Reaction, Executive Decision, Extreme Measures, First Wives Club, Independence Day, The Frighteners, Nutty Professor, Tin Cup, Twister, Air Force One, The Edge, Con Air, Contact, Deep Rising, Flubber, Men in Black, Mouse Hunt, Mr. Magoo, Scream II, Starship Troopers, Titanic, The Rainmaker, US Marshals, The Matrix, A Bug's Life, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Godzilla, Instinct, Mulan, Mystery Alaska, Odd Couple II, Parent Trap, Pleasantville, Small Soldiers, Tarzan, The Thin Red Line, Water Boy, Austin Powers II, General's Daughter, The Haunting, Thomas Crown Affair, Wild Wild West, Snow Day, Reindeer Games, The Tigger Movie, Scream 3, U-571, and Frequency; plus many more recent movies.

He performed as tuba soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pasadena Symphony, the San Fernando Valley Symphony, the LA Pops Orchestra, the USC Wind Ensemble, The LA Tuba Quartet, and with the Henry Mancini Orchestra.  Mr. Johnson can be heard on the recording of "The Manhattan Transfer meets Tubby the Tuba" CD or tape on Summit Records.  Other recording include: Brass Tacks, Wimr-14-Stereo; Partita for Brass Quintet and Tape - Lazarof, Vox Records; Rampal Plays Scott Joplin on CBS Masterworks; Mancini Generation, RCA Victor, and Jaws by John Williams on MCA records.

Tommy Johnson received the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' Most Valuable Player Award for Tuba Player in 1974, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, and 1980.  In 1981 he was awarded the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences "Emeritus Most Valuable Tuba Player", thereby making him ineligible to receive this award ever again.

CAROL KAYE

WEBSITE: www.carolkaye.com

Was a "first-call" session bassist with over 10,000 sessions! Carol's credits are mind boggling!

Whipped Cream - Herb Alpert
Spanish Eyes - Al Martino
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Sloop John B, I Get Around, Wouldn't It Be Nice (dano), Calif. Girls, God Only Knows, Pet Sounds lp, Heroes & Villains, Caroline No, Surf's Up, Child Is The Father Of The Man, Do You Like Worms?, Smile lp, Cabinessence, Fire sessions, I Was Made To Love Her, Let Him Run Wild - Beach Boys
Little Green Apples, Hickory Hollar - O.C. Smith
Goin' Out Of My Head/Can't Take my Eyes Off Of You medley, Hurt So Bad, Shangrila, When I Fall in Love, More, Theme from Summer Place, etc. - Lettermen
Something Stupid - Frank & Nancy Sinatra
Boots, Sugar Town, You Only Live Twice theme, etc. - Nancy Sinatra
Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker
The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand
Tell Her You Love Her, The World We Knew (OD dano fuzz on "World"), etc. - Frank Sinatra
Hold Me Thrill Me etc. - Mel Carter
Godfather Theme, Love Story etc. - Andy Williams
In The Heat Of The Night, I Don't Need No Doctor, America The Beautiful, Eleanor Rigby, I Chose To Sing The Blues, Here We Go Again, Don't Change
On Me, Feel So Bad, Understanding etc. - Ray Charles
Romeo & Juliet Theme (A Time For Love), Willow Weep For Me, Godfather Theme, others & Doc Severinson lp etc. - Henry Mancini
Mercy Mercy Mercy etc. - Buckinghams
Indian Reservation etc. - Paul Revere & Raiders
Natural Man, Love Is A Hurtin' Thing, Unforgettable, Your Good Thing etc. - Lou Rawls
Song Of Innocence - David Axelrod I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder
What'd I Say, A Little Less Conversation, Suspicious Minds etc. - Elvis Presley (this cut is claimed by 4 others too)
Bless The Beasts And The Children - Perry Botkin
Little GTO, Go Little Honda - Hondels
Shaft Theme - movie OD MGM w/J.J.Johnson (credited on sheet music)
You Gave Me A Mountain, To Each His Own etc. - Frankie Laine
Games People Play, Happy Together, Comin' Home etc. - Mel Torme
Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Rhinestone Cowboy etc. - Glen Campbell
Someday We'll Be together Again, Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross (w/Temps, cut 1968 RCA, Paul Humphrey on drums released 1970, you hear my improvising on this after my music fell down on take)
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You, Ain't Nothin' But The Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell (Steiner's studio - LA)
Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me baby - Hamilton, Joe Franks & Reynolds (ABC Paramount OD)
It Must Be Him etc. - Vickie Carr
12th Of Never, Alone Again, Memories, etc. - Johnny Mathis
Tiny Bubbles etc. - Don Ho
When I Die - Motherlode (Toronto)
Batman Theme & others - Marketts
I'm A Believer, Last Train To Clarksville & others - Monkees
Homeward Bound, I Am A Rock, Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkle
Call Me etc. - Chris Montez
Straight Life, Honey etc. - Bobby Goldsboro
River Deep, Mountain High - Tina Turner
No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In - T-Bones
This Diamond Ring, Just My Style, etc. - Gary Lewis and Playboys
Soul & Inspiration - Righteous Bros.
Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind
Hikky Burr - Bill Cosby TV Theme/Quincy Jones (TV and single) "Livin' It Up" lp - Jimmy Smith
Chump Change - Quincy Jones
Red Roses For A Blue Lady etc. - Vic Dana
Up A Lazy River (rock part) etc. - Bobby Darin
It's A Small World - Mike Curb & Congregation (at Disneyworld too)
Light My Fire - Doors (listed in book)
In Crowd, Going To The Gogo, etc. (dano, el. bass) - Dobie Gray
Bonnie Jean - Ed Ames
Love Child, Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love, Back In My Arms Again, You Can't Hurry Love, My World Is Empty Without You, Reflections, Love Is Here And Now You're Gone, You're All I Need To Get By etc. - Supremes
GIT On Broadway TV Show - Diana Ross/Temptations cut 1969 NBC, Al Lapin contractor
Come Together - Count Basie
I Can't Help Myself, Bernadette etc. - 4 Tops
Peace Of Mind, Out Of This World - Nancy Wilson
Willow Weep For Me - Chad & Jeremy
This Is My Song - Pet Clarke
Joe Williams Live lp
Big Man lp - Cannonball Adderly
A Time For Love - Tony Bennett
Northern Windows lp - Hampton Hawes Trio
Get Ready, I Second That Emotion - Temptations
Doo Ron Ron - Crystals
Count Me In etc. - Bobby Vee
Yellow Balloon - Gary Zekeley
Baby The Rain Must Fall - Glenn Yarborough
Midnight Confessions, etc. - Grass Roots
Home Of The Brave - Jody Miller
David Axlerod produced lps
You Made Me So Very Happy - Brenda Holloway
Sixteen Tons (60s recut heard now on radio, others) - Tenn. Ernie Ford
Alone Again Or, Dailey Planet - Love
Bang Bang, Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - Cher
Winter Wonderland - Darlene Love
Expected to Fly - Buffalo Springfield
The Summer Wind - Wayne Newton
Universal Jones Vol. I - Gene McDaniels
Do I Love You? - Ronnie Spector & The Ronettes
Fastman Raiderman - Frank Black
Frummenn - The Original Studmenn (VIP Iceland group)

Many other hit recordings with: April & Nino, Spiral Staircase, Beach Boys, Lou Rawls, Association, Del Shannon, Bobby Vee, Gary Puckett & Union Gap, Monkees, First Edition, We 3, Dino-Desi-Billy, Dick & DeeDee, Association, Soulstrings, Hollywood Strings, PF Sloan, Van Dyke Parkes, Brenda Holloway, Parris Sisters, Judd & Lisa, Blossoms, New Seekers, Wayne Newton, Vic Dana, Timi Yuro, Deep 6, Harper's Bazaar, Gary Usher, Liverpool 5, Animals, Invinceables, Buckinghams, Young Americans, John Davidson, Mel Taylor, Quincy Jones, Rod McKuen, Harry Nilsson, Grass Roots, T-Bones, Bobby Paris, Doodletown Pipers, John Gary, Vogues, Hedge & Donna, Bobby Sherman, Isley Bros., Frankie Avalon, GoGos, Clydie King, Bobby Rydell, Peter & Gordon, Goodtime Singers, Billy Storm, Kenny Rogers, Buce & Terry, Bobby Sheen, Barbara McCair, Terry Melchior, Young Folk, Jericho Brown, Kim Weston, Al Kooper, Phil Spector prod's, Trombones Unlimited, Osmond Bros., Buckinghams, Michelle Lee, Monk Higgins, Robert Goulet, Judy Carne, Hugo Montenegro, Dody Stevens, Darlene Love, Ripchords, Jody Daniels, Lola Falana, Ralke Strings, Gilbert Becaud, 4 Preps, Fred Astair, Dorsey Burnett, Don Ellis, Ray Conniff, Nelson Riddle, Ian Whitcomb, Billy Strange, Oopie McKurn, Back Porch Majority, Ernie Andrews, Little Richard, Tony Martin, Billy May, Odetta, King Family, Stan Freberg, Tom & John Bahler, Jimmie Griffin, Annette Funicello, Gloria Lynne, Wilder Bros., John Cole, Willie John, Irma Thomas, Donna Loren, Randy Sparks, Tutti's Trombones, Frank Zappa, Beau Brummels, Jerry Vale, Claudine Longet, Sue Raney, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, Billy Eckstein, Buffalo Springfield, Eartha Kitt, Ann Margaret, Doris Day, Patti Page, Howard Roberts, Bill Medley, Dee Irvin, Johnny Otis, Coasters, Elmer Bernstein, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Adano, Honey Bees, Bonnie Guitar, Don Crawford, Stu Phillips, Joey Paige, Johnny Guitar Watson, Sims Twins, Baker Knight, Tyrone & Jerome, Fran Jeffries, Noel Harris, Meredith McCrea, Joey Paige, Barry Young, Piccolo Pupa, Jackie & Gayle, Johnny Ray, Liza Minelli, Peter & Gordon, Billy Preston, Joannie Sommers, Curtis Mayfield, Dean Martin, Rosemary Clooney, Eddie Arnold, Roger Miller, Dusty Springfield, Roger Williams, Shirley Bassey, Adam West, Neil Diamond, Kingston Trio, Lorne Greene, Kay Starr, Alan Copeland, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, Richard Roundtree, Gene McDaniels, Don Ellis, Eddy Fisher, David Rose, Willie Bobo, George Burns, Four Freshmen, Electric Prunes, Bettye Swan, Robie Porter, Elvis Presley, Kelly Gordon, Bob Crosby, Paul Anka, Laurindo Almeida, Gogi Grant, Jerry Butler, Hollies, Mahalia Jackson, Reader's Digest, Charlie Wrights 110th St. Band, Mills Bros., Bud Shank, Gabor Szabor, Sally Fields, Pet Clarke, Duayne Eddy, Rudy Vallee, Brook Benton, Les Baxter, John Wayne, Mae West, Burt Bacharach, Carol Burnett, Dick Smothers, Johnny Burnett, Nellie Lutcher, Bobby Sands, Kip Tyler, Kim Fowley, Wynonna Carr, Toni Harper, Guy Mitchell, Modernaires, Soupy Sales, Louie Jordan, Ray Anthony, Jan & Dean, Damita Jo, Bishops, Chuck & Joe, Ray Conniff, Tommy Oliver, Sandy Nelson, Keely Smith, 5th Dimension, Peter-Paul-Mary, Marty Robbins, Peggy Lee, Johnny Ray, Margaret Whiting, Tommy Leonetti, Howard Roberts, Berl Davis, Patti Duke, Freddie Cannon, Fred Smith, Frank Ortega, Johnny Magnus, Al Martino, Mike Lloyd prods', Don Costa, J.J. Hohnson, Dee Irwin, Johnny Mann Singers, Billy Daniels, Lalo Shifrin, Tony Bruno, Arthur Prysock, Jimmie Rodgers, John Klemmer, Santo & Johnny, Jerry Vail, Ferrante & Teicher, Eddie Hodges, Hub Cap & Wheels, Honey Bees, Rosie Grier, Dymiktri Tiomkin, Fess Parker, Les Poupees De Paris, Tom Vaughn, Barry Young, C. C. Jones, Charles Cunard, Carroll Connors, Georgia Carr, Buckshots, Gary Bowman, Billy Mize, Bishops, Ken Clarke, Blood Bros., Marty Robbins, Dean Holly, Tigers, John Wayne, The Girlfriends, Jack Nitzchie, Jean King, Eddie Beal, Dallas Smith, Barbara McNair, Troy Donahue, Cookie Jackson, Peter Ford, Little Joe, Pete King, Eddie Hodges, Dynatones, Vince Edwards, Tammy Grimes, Little Joe, Sun Rays, Platters, Don Robertson, Keith Allison, Bonnie & Treasures, Percy Faith, Jimmie Lewis, Frankie Randall, Joe Reisman, Michel LeGrand, Tiny Tim, Andy Russell, Group Therapy, Morgana King, Kitty Lester, Marvelettees, Miracles, H.B. Barnum prod's, Esquival, Marketts, Hollywood Strings, Rouvan, Jody Miller, Leslie Gore, George Chikaris, Trombones Unlimited, Pat Boone, Hollyridge Singers, Jewel Akens, Bobby Sherman, Shacklefords, Barry Young, Gene Daniels, Gene Ammons, Della Reese, Stan Kenton, Don Ellis, Joe Pass, Janis Ian, Johnny Rivers, Cass Elliot, Hampton Hawes, Jimmy Smith, Tom Scott, Cannonball Adderly, Howlin' Wolf etc. and more.

Some T.V. Shows - Electric Bass

M*A*S*H
Mission Impossible
Ironside
Kojak
Hawaii 5-O
Bill Cosby Show (the first one)
Room 222
Streets of San Fransico
Brady Bunch
Cannon
McCloud
Hogan's Heros
Addams Family
Soap
FBI
It Takes a Thief
Wonder Woman
Alice
Peyton Place
Love Boat
Get Smart
Green Acres
Wild Wild West
Lost in Space
Lucy
Mannix
Stalag 17

Some Film Scores - Electric Bass

Across 110th Street, Adam at 6AM, Airport, Bandolero, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, The Big Chill, Big Jake, Bikini Beach, The Boatnicks, Boogie Nights, Bunny O'Hare, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Butterflies Are Free, C'mon Let's Live A Little, Cactus Flower, Cahill US Marshall, Change Of Habit, The Cheyenne Social Club, Colusus The Forbin Project, Coogan's Bluff, The Cool Ones, Darker Than Amber, Devils Angels, Don't Make Waves, Downhill Racer, Duel, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes, Father Of The Bride, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fireball 500, Flap, Flea In Her Ear, Ghost, Goodfellas, Great Northfield Minn. Raid, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Gypsy Moths, Hello Down There, High Plains Drifter, The Hot Rock, How To Stuff A Wild Bikini, I Love You Alice B Toklas, If He Hollars Let Him Go, The Impossible Years, In Cold Blood, In The Heat Of The Night, King Of Kings, La Bamba, Lady In Cement, Last Of The Secret Agents, Le Mans, The Long Goodbye, The Lost Man, The Love Machine, MASH (and TV shows), Madigan, Me Natalie, Miniskirt Mob, Murderer's Row, Myra Breckenbridge, Naked Gun 2-1/2, The New Centurions, Newman's Law, Nobody's Perfect, No Way To Treat A Lady, Norwood, One Is A Lonely Number, Only Game In Town, P J, The Paper Chase, The Pawnbroker, Pete And Tillie, The Pink Jungle, Plaza Suite, Poseidon Adventure, Red Line 7000, Revenge, Showdown B, Silent Running, Skullduggery, Sleepers, The Slender Thread, Smoky, Sometimes A Great Notion, The Split, Stand Up And Be Counted, Sugarland Express, Sweet Charity, Sweet Ride, The Swinger, Tell Me That You Love Me Junie...., Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, There Was A Crooked Man, The Thief Who Came To Dinner, Thomas Crown Affair, Three Bites Of The Apple, Thunder Alley, Tin Men, Tony Rome, Top Gun, The Undefeated, Vegas Vacation, Walk Don't Run, Waterhole 3, What's So Bad About Feeling Good, Where Angels Go Trouble Follows, Where Were You When the Lights....., A Whisper Kills, White Lightning, Wild In The Streets, Wild Racers, Will Penny, Winning, With Six You Get Egg Roll, The Young Runaways, Yours Mine And Ours, Baby The Rain Must Fall, Bob Ted Carol & Alice, Bullit, The Fox, Viva Las Vegas...and many others......

These are from the reported ones just lately on our 1x yearly Movie re-use list, Musician's Federation List. I did the entire scores of all the movies listed, except for a latter 4-5 which used some "old music", such as "Ghost" or "Top Gun" and some of the latest movies not included
on this list.

HARRY KLEE

MANNY KLEIN

One of the busiest trumpeters of the 1930's, Manny Klein appeared on a countless number of recordings (both in jazz settings and quite anonymously) through the decades. Klein started out at the top, recording with Paul Whiteman in 1928 and taking a solo on "Makin' Whoopee" that would normally have been taken by the indisposed Bix Beiderbecke. Klein was on literally hundreds of recordings during the next nine years, playing in a style that was similar to (and often later on mistaken for) Bunny Berigan's. Among the many records that he appeared on were dates led by the Boswell Sisters, the Dorsey Brothers and Benny Goodman plus many dance band sessions for Don Voorhees, Red Nichols, Fred Rich, Roger Wolfe Kahn and others; a complete Manny Klein discography has yet to be assembled! In 1937 Klein moved to California where, other than some work with the Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra and with Manny Malneck (1939), he was a studio musician for 40 years. Klein occasionally played jazz locally but mostly performed on movie soundtracks (including dubbing for Ziggy Elman in the Benny Goodman Story) where his beautiful tone and versatility were considered major assets. Manny Klein led record dates for Brunswick (1936), Keynote (1946), Coral (1947) and a full album for Imperial (jazz versions of themes from The Sound Of Music in 1959).

BOB MAGNUSSON

WEBSITE: www.bobmagnusson.net

Bob Magnusson, much in demand as a jazz, pop, and classical bassist, also is a great string bass teacher. His extensive studio work, making jazz recordings, television spots, film scores, and jingles, includes a personal discography in excess of 150 albums and CDs. Leonard Feather of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "His solos are models of creative, spontaneous artistry. His tone is full, rich and consistent; he is one of those masters who can achieve effortlessly any phrase that comes to his mind. His basic function as a rhythm player is fulfilled no less resourcefully when the others solo..."

In addition to stints in the Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra and the San Diego Symphony, Bob also has performed with many pop and jazz greats, including Buddy Rich, Sara Vaughan, Jimmy Cobb, Art Pepper Quartet, Benny Golson Quartet, Joe Farrell Quartet, Linda Ronstadt, Natalie Cole, Neil Diamond, Bonnie Raitt, 10,000 Maniacs, Madonna, Hank Jones, Cedar Walton, Jimmy Heath, Art Farmer, Kenny Barron, Freddie Hubbard, Slide Hampton, Billy Higgins, Carl Fontana, Tommy Flanagan, Mike Wofford, Holly Hofmann, Kenny Burrell, Roger Kellaway, Randy Porter, Ernie Watts, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Peter Erskine, Bobby Shew, Bill Mays, Shorty Rogers, Bob Cooper, Lou Donaldson, Clifford Jordan, George Cables, Victor Lewis, Joe Pass, Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank. In addition to his many appearances in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Diego, Bob has done extensive traveling, performing in many of the world's finest concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has made many trips to Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Central and South America with various artists.

Bob also has received notoriety as a teacher and clinician. He was an active faculty member of Musician's Institute in Hollywood, California from 1977-1996. In 1998 he joined the faculty at San Diego Mesa Community College and the Coronado School of the Arts where he teaches high school and college students about harmony and theory, jazz improvisation, etc. He also enjoys working with private students. Bob has been an instructor at the Centrum School of Creative Arts in Port Townsend, Washington. Adding to his many achievements, Bob wrote a book, "The Art of the Walking Bass," which was published by the Hal Leonard Publishing Company in 1999.

OLLIE MITCHELL

WEBSITE: www.olliephonics.com

DICK NOEL

EARL PALMER

WEBSITE: http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Earl_Palmer.html

Earl Palmer grew up in New Orleans and later moved to Los Angeles, impacting the music scenes in both cities as a first-call session drummer. From 1950 to 1957, Palmer's powerful backbeat and mastery of second-line shuffle rhythms made him a much in-demand percussionist in his hometown. He was hired by bandleader Dave Bartholomew in 1947 after a stint in the army and recorded extensively with Bartholomew protege Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Smiley Lewis and other New Orleans artists at Cosimo Matassa's famed J&M studio. He also played on the seminal rock and roll recordings of Little Richard, who wrote in his autobiography that Palmer "is probably the greatest session drummer of all time."

Lured to California to work for Aladdin Records in 1957, he's played on literally thousands of rock, jazz, R&B and soundtrack sessions over the years. From his home base in Los Angeles, Palmer drummed for producer Phil Spector and for Motown. His list of session credits includes artists as diverse as Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Duane Eddy, Frank Sinatra, the Monkees, Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Otis, Neil Young and Elvis Costello. Though Palmer's first love was jazz—"I lived in a jazz world," he allowed in his 1999 autobiography Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story—he laid the foundation for rock and roll drumming with his solid stickwork and feverish backbeat.

TOMMY PEDERSEN

The name Tommy Pederson means great trombone music. Tommy has written hundreds of arrangements and original compositions not only for All My Friends are Trombone Players album, but for the Hollywood Trombones Christmas album and countless others. His arrangements for the trombone ensemble known as Hoyt's Garage (named for Hoyt Bohanan's garage) are many and those fortunate enough to have participated in those frequent sessions at Hoyt's house know what a genius Tommy Pederson is, both as an arranger and as a trombonist. Tommy was a complete musician; a fantastic trombone player and a serious student of composition; having been playing, writing and studying since he was four years old. Prior to that, he was a complete wastrel. Tommy began his professional career traveling with the bands of such luminaries as Gene Krupa and Tommy Dorsey while still in his teens.

After World War Two, he came to Hollywood and started his own band. The Tommy Pederson Orchestra was soon a fixture at such venues as the Hollywood Palladium and the Brown Derby. As his reputation grew, so did the demands on his time. From the early 1950's, and continuing well into the 1970's, Tommy Pederson was THE trombone player in Hollywood. He was featured in literally thousands of movie soundtracks, television and radio shows, and recordings. As busy as he was (sometimes playing as many as six sessions a day) Tommy always found the time for his true passion: composition. The stories concerning those rehearsals in The Garage have reached almost legendary proportions . . . and they're true! The best players in Hollywood would stop in to play some of the most challenging yet satisfying music ever written for the trombone.

ROY POPER

WEBSITE: http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/rpoper/

Roy Poper has for more than 30 years maintained an active performing career of a breadth rare among musicians. His engagements span every facet of trumpet performance including symphonic principal player (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and L.A. Opera), film studio work (over 500 major motion pictures), chamber music (founding member, The Modern Brass Quintet), and "popular" genres including jazz ensembles, Broadway shows, and even recordings with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.

Equally respected as a teacher, he was for more than 20 years a member of the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Music prior to moving to Oberlin, OH in 2002 to assume the duties of Associate Professor of Trumpet at the Oberlin Conservatory. His book, Roy Poper's Guide to the Brasswind Methods of James Stamp (Balquhidder Music), which serves as a companion to James Stamp Warm-ups and Studies (Editions BIM) has become an acclaimed addition to the trumpet method-book literature, thoroughly explaining how to execute and effeciently utilize James Stamps' teaching methods.

He continues to be in demand as a performer, performing frequently in the greater Cleveland Area and Los Angeles. He has commissioned numerous works, some of which appear on his forthcoming CD, L.A. Trumpet Works. Roy has been recorded on the Crystal, Orion, Nonesuch, and Dorian labels.

GEORGE ROBERTS

George Roberts (known as "Mr. Bass Trombone") was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa. George began his career after service in the US Navy with the Ray Robbins Band, and then quit to join Gene Krupa in 1947, where he was in the same section with Urbie Green. It was Urbie's lyric tenor trombone playing that inspired George to be an "Urbie" one octave lower.

When the Krupa band broke up in 1949, George played freelance in Reno for a year before being hired into the Stan Kenton Orchestra from 1950 until 1953, to replace Bart Varsalona, who had left the band during its 1947-49 hiatus. Roberts opted to stay in Los Angeles rather than go with Kenton on his 1953 European tour, and began working as a freelance substitute. He was introduced to Nelson Riddle by Lee Gillette, one of the executives at Capitol Records who had produced Kenton recordings. George soon launched a successful studio recording career with Riddle, Don Costa, Billy May, Axel Stordahl, Gordon Jenkins, among others, in sessions with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole and many others.

As a Hollywood studio musician, Roberts recorded numerous film scores with all the major studios (Jaws, King Kong, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, etc.) and served on the staff orchestras of the major radio and television networks (Carol Burnett Show, Dinah Shore Show, Academy Awards, etc.). He eventually appeared on over 6000 recordings before retiring.

TOMMY SHEPARD

Tommy Shepard began playing trombone in his junior year in high school. The next year he won a national solo contest and by the time he was 19 he was on the road with the Ben Bernie Orchestra. After twelve months with Ben Bernie, he enlisted in the United States Army and played in a variety of Army big bands, finally winding up with Wayne King’s Orchestra at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where he played for two years, making V-Discs, working bond rallies and generally supporting the nation’s spirits.

Released from service in 1946, he settled down in Chicago working first at the Chez Paree, then on the staff of the orchestras at NBC, ABC, and finally CBS.

While he was at ABC, Shepard was granted six months leave of absence in 1953 to join Stan Kenton on first trombone (his section mates were Frank Rosolino and Bill Russo). The invitation to join Kenton came as a direct result of a rehearsal band that Tommy had formed in 1948. It was a big swinging band that gave some of the top studio musicians in Chicago a chance to perform once a week. Tommy kept the band going until 1953 when he went with Kenton.

In 1960 Tommy started working in Hollywood and quickly became one of the city’s busiest free-lance studio trombone players. He was a regular recording artist for Capitol Records, Reprise Records, and Verve Records during this time. He was also part of the house band for The Hollywood Palace television show, The Joey Bishop Show (1967-1969 talk show), and worked in many Hollywood film orchestras.

During 1963 Tommy began to document his time working in the Hollywood studios with his camera. His photography brought a new perspective to an era of American music that would end with the British Invasion. His photographs were eventually donated to University of Arizona's School of Music in 2005, where his collection now resides.

In the 1970s Tommy began leading his own orchestra again, which performed for numerous events in Southern California. He also contracted for the Nelson Riddle Orchestra — when Nelson Riddle was unavailable — and led the Nelson Riddle Alumni Orchestra after Mr. Riddle's passing. Tommy continued to lead his own orchestra until succumbing to a heart attack, at his home in Indian Wells, California, in 1993.

KENNY SHROYER

WILLIE SCHWARTZ

TOMMY TEDESCO

"The Most Recorded Guitarist in History" was a title conferred upon Tommy Tedesco, and it’s doubtful anyone else could lay claim to it. As a session guitarist, Tedesco’s career stretched from the beginnings of the "California Sound" in the early Sixties until 1992, when he suffered a stroke that limited his use of his right arm.

Tedesco’s astonishing portfolio and reputation were a result of his versatile sight-reading abilities and talent for interpreting – and delivering – whatever a producer or composer wanted, whether it was a TV or movie theme, soundtrack, or pop, rock, jazz, country; in short, anything.

A self-described "hustler," Tedesco came from a poor neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, and made his way into the emerging L.A. session scene by dint of sheer determination and hard work. Never a big shot who hung around with the stars, he nonetheless worked with the biggest names in the business throughout the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s:

Producers and composers Herb Alpert, Phil Spector, and Henry Mancini. Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley, Olivia Newton-John, the Fifth Dimension, the Monkees, the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean. Frank Zappa, J.J. Cale, the Mamas and the Papas, Doc Severinson, the Everly Brothers, Sarah Vaughan, the Partridge Family, Al Kooper. And this is a short list!

Tedesco also played on numerous TV and movie soundtracks, from Bonanza and Green Acres to Jaws and The French Connection. He was always willing to play a part "bad" or "good" according to the direction of the producer, and was not limited to guitar; he carried a collection of other instruments to sessions, including mandolin and sitar, and all tuned like a guitar.

He also made many solo albums in which he played mostly what he termed "hip jazz stuff," which was his personal favorite style. He passed away in 1997 at the age of 67.

TONY TERRAN