Bob Effros
Robert "Bob" Effros (born December 6, 1900 in London , † 1983 or 1984 in New York City ) was a British-American jazz trumpeter and composer .
Effros' family immigrated to the United States when Bob was three years old. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and began playing the trumpet when he was eleven. He found his first professional job as a musician on a Mississippi river steamer, where he first worked as a cornet player, then as a trumpeter; his musical role model was King Oliver . Between 1917 and 1919 he served as a musician in the US Army; after the war he lived in Baltimore, where he played in Bea Palmer's big band . In the 1920s he was a member of the Vincent Lopez Orchestra, for which he wrote successful titles such as "Why the Twenties Roared", "Tin Ear", "Cornfed" and "Why Don't You Get Lost?" He also worked as a songwriter for Fletcher Henderson , Red Nichols and Ben Selvin . He returned to England for concert tours with Annette Hanshaw ; he toured Europe frequently with the Vincent Lopez Orchestra.
In 1929 he decided to start a family and work as a studio musician for Vitaphone . a. for the cartoons of the Max Fleischer productions such as Betty Boop , Pop-Eye and Felix the Cat as well as for Harry Reser . In addition, on August 27, 1929 he recorded his compositions "Tin Ear" and "Sweet and Hot" for Brunswick (# 4620) under his own name , in a duo with pianists Arthur Schutt and Frank Signorelli . In the following ten years he was involved in 125 recording sessions, including a. at Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey , Xavier Cugat , Al Jolson , Joe Venuti , Joe Tarto , Jimmy Durante , Washboard Sam , WC Handy , Scrappy Lambert , Red Nichols and Fats Waller . Bob Effrow was active as a studio musician until the 1940s; he last lived in the New York borough of Queens , where he died at the age of 83.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Ross Laird, Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, Brunswick Radio Corporation: Brunswick Records: New York sessions, 1927-1931 . 2001, p. 714
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Effros, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Effros, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1983 or 1984 |
| Place of death | New York City |