Charles Small

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Charles "Charlie" Small (* 1927 ; † April 18, 2017 ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( trombone , composition , arrangement ).

Live and act

Small grew up in the Lower East Side of New York City and began his career as a professional musician at the age of 17 in Tommy Dorsey's swing band after high school . From 1944 he played in the Harry James Orchestra, with which the first recordings were made; in the following years he worked as a freelance musician a. a. in the big bands and studio orchestras of Paul Whiteman (1956), Sid Ramin (1958), Hal Mooney ( Big Band and Voices ), Vic Schoen / Les Brown , Urbie Green ( 21 Trombones , 1968), Max Morath ( At the Turn of the Century , 1969) and with Bill Watrous , heard on his Columbia albums Manhattan Wildlife Refugee (1974) and The Tiger of San Pedro (1975). He also worked on recordings by Carmen McRae (1964) and Moondog (1969). In the 1970s, he and George Duvivier and Bobby Donaldson presented the album Little Jazz Duets on the Music Minus One label .

Small was also a member of the Dick Cavett Show studio band and has worked on a variety of Broadway theater shows. He has also appeared as a soloist with the ABC Radio Symphony Orchestra and on the radio show Tea and Crumpets . In his later years, Small worked in Arizona with his own trombone octet and various choirs. In the field of jazz he was involved in 41 recording sessions between 1944 and 1981, most recently with Sammy Nestico ( Dark Orchid ). Small created compositions for trombones such as "Conversation" (1993) for tenor and bass trombone , which he had written as a duet for himself and New York bass trombonist Dave Taylor . He also arranged the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony for eight trombones.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Requiem. (No longer available online.) September 8, 2017, archived from the original on September 8, 2017 ; accessed on September 8, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.local802afm.org
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 8, 2017)
  3. ↑ The Last Trombone
  4. ↑ International Trombone Association Journal, Volume 36, ITA, 2008, p. 83
personal data
SURNAME Small, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Small, Charlie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and studio musician, arranger and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2017