Gene Cipriano

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Eugene "Gene" Cipriano (* 1928 in New Haven , Connecticut) is an American jazz and studio musician ( tenor saxophone , oboe , bassoon , flutes , English horn , bass clarinet ) who was one of the busiest musicians in Hollywood's studio business.

Life

Cipriano began his career as a saxophonist in the late 1940s in the swing bands of Tony Pastor and Tex Beneke , with whom the first recordings were made. In the following decade he also played with Tommy Dorsey , Ray Anthony , Pete Rugolo , John Towner Williams and Buddy Collette ; He also worked on recordings for Patti Page , Keely Smith , Mel Tormé , Anita O'Day and Ella Fitzgerald . From the 1960s onwards, Cipriano was mainly employed as a studio musician. a. with Frank Sinatra , Natalie Cole , Elvis Presley , Judy Garland , Rosemary Clooney , Frank Zappa ( Lumpy Gravy ) and numerous film scores by Henry Mancini , heard as a soloist in Hatari and Baby Elephant Walk and as a music double by Tony Curtis in Billy Wilders Some like it hot .

In the early 1960s he recorded the live album Gene Cipriano at the House of Cards (Conquest) under his own name . He also worked in the field of jazz during this time on recordings by Cal Tjader , Erroll Garner , Miles Davis / Gil Evans ( The Time of the Barracudas , 1963), Irene Kral , Johnny Mandel , Shorty Rogers , Carmen McRae , Thelonious Monk ( Monk's Blues , 1969) and Jean-Luc Ponty ( King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa ). In the 1970s and 80s he worked a. a. with Alice Coltrane , Peggy Lee , Buell Neidlinger , Harry Nilsson , Prince ( Parade ) and Tom Waits .

According to Tom Lord , he was involved in 145 recording sessions between 1947 and 2014. Gene Cipriano has appeared in almost every Academy Awards shows since 1959 . In 2006 he released the album First Time Out under his own name .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gene Cipriano in the Internet Movie Database (English) Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed February 28, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Cipriano, Gene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cipriano, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and studio musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven (Connecticut)