Gene Goe

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Gene Arnold Goe (* around 1940) is an American jazz and studio musician ( trumpet ) who mainly worked in big bands .

Goe played in 1960 in The Modern Jazz Orchestra (Featuring Kenny Drew ) , with whom the first recordings were made in Miami, in the following years with Si Zentner , before moving to Count Basie in 1965 , with whom he made a guest appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966 . In the 1970s he worked in various big bands, including a with Bill Berry and the LA Band, Bob Florence Big Band, Bob Friedman , Norman Connors and Maynard Ferguson & His Orchestra. He also worked as a studio musician in Frank Zappa's Abnuceal's Emuukha Electric Orchestra in its production Lumpy Gravy . In the field of jazz he was involved in 79 recording sessions between 1960 and 1983, including a. also with Ray Barretto , Paulinho Da Costa , The Manhattan Transfer , Carmen McRae , Sonny Rollins ( The Way I Feel , 1976), Carole King , Gladys Knight , Maria Muldaur and Sarah Vaughan .

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  1. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 25, 2016)