Hale Rood

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Hale Rood (born February 2, 1923 in Merrill (Wisconsin) , † December 19, 1991 ) was an American jazz and orchestral musician ( trombone , arrangement , composition ).

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Rood, who lived in New York, was a trombonist in the Ralph Flanagan Orchestra in the early 1950s ; from the middle of the decade he played in the orchestras of Ray Eberle , Tito Puente ( Night Beat , 1957), Benny Goodman and George Shearing ( Satin Brass , 1959). Rood was also arranger of the soundtrack for the TV series Be Our Guest (1960). Under his own name, he released the soundtrack LP Music to Make Automobiles By in 1962 , music for the short film The Right Hand of Plenty . From the 1970s he worked as a musician for Art Webb and until the 1990s with Louie Bellson , as well as arranger and orchestral conductor for vocalists such as Anne Marie Moss ( Don't You Know Me?, 1980, with Jerry Dodgion , among others , Sol Schlinger , Eddie Gomez , Randy Jones ) and Helen Forrest ( Now and Forever , 1983, with Frank Wess , Hank Jones , George Duvivier , Grady Tate , among others ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 29 recording sessions between 1953 and 1990.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Saxophone Symposium, Volumes 8-9, North American Saxophone Alliance., 1983
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 18, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Rood, Hale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Merrill, Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1991