Emile Charlap

Emile Charlap (born April 27, 1918 in Brooklyn - † March 22, 2015 ) was an American musician ( trumpet , arrangement ), copyist and contractor . According to Bob Wilber , Charlap was "a leading force in the New York music scene," signing contracts for film, theater and television productions.

Charlap learned the trumpet at the age of 15 and played in the high school band. During the war years he toured with the United Service Organizations and, through the mediation of Johnny Mandel, worked as a copyist for Sid Caesar's musical Your Show of Shows and then for the TV program Name That Tune . When he met Ralph Burns , he came to mediate musicians for bands, and from the 1960s onwards for the emerging film industry in New York as well as for radio and television advertising. He had an office on 48th Street in Manhattan and was a contractor for films such as The Wiz , On Golden Lake , Reds , Ghostbusters - The Ghostbusters , Dressed to Kill , Cotton Club , The Big Lebowski , Fargo - Bloody Snow, and SWAT - The Special Forces as well as studio recordings etc. a. by Wynton Marsalis , Tony Bennett and Carly Simon . Charlap worked as a copyist for Dizzy Gillespie and numerous Broadway shows such as Grease , Sweet Charity and Do I Hear a Waltz , as an arranger a. a. for Behind the Spotlight (1979), as a studio musician for David Sanborn ( Takin 'Off , 1975).

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SURNAME	Charlap, Emile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American musician (trumpet, arrangement), copyist and contractor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 2015