Bob Kaye

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Bob Kaye (* 1944 or 1945; † September 23, 2019 ) was an American jazz musician ( piano , arrangement ).

Kaye began his music career in the Catskill Mountains when he was 16 years old. He then attended the Manhattan School of Music (graduated in 1967) and worked from then on as a hotel musician and accompanist for vocalists. In the 1970s he was a pianist and from 1978 also arranger for the Buddy Rich band, a. a. heard on The Man from Planet Jazz . He has also performed with vocalists Anita O'Day , Chris Connor , Lainie Kazan and Julius LaRosa . He also played with jazz musicians such as Stan Getz , Dizzy Gillespie , Art Blakey and Hank Mobley, Mel Tormé , Lionel Hampton , Woody Shaw , Clark Terry , Milt Hinton , Frank Wess , Jymie Merritt , Phil Woods and Louis Bellson , as orchestra conductor and pianist also with Liza Minnelli , Rosemary Clooney , Cab Calloway , Claire Barry , Helen Schneider and with the Count Basie Orchestra . Recordings were made with Ray Alexander Sextet (1994), Chris Connor ( Concert - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA Oct 22, 1976 ) and with Bob Stewart ( One Life (1997), with Jack Wilkins , Chip Jackson , Ronnie Zito ), Cavril Payne ( Cavril Sings ). In the 1980s, Kaye also performed with his own trio in New York clubs such as the Angry Squire .

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  1. ↑ Report of death at. Local 802, November 1, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Short portrait at Trumpets Jazz
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 1, 2019)
  4. ^ New York Magazine, January 18, 1988
personal data
SURNAME Kaye, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaye, Bobby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1944 or 1945
DATE OF DEATH 23 September 2019