Harvey Estrin

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Harvey Estrin (born June 5, 1929 - September 21, 2002 ) was an American jazz , orchestral and studio musician ( saxophone , flute , clarinet ).

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Estrin, who came from Burlington, Vermont, was active in the New York music scene from the mid-1940s; first recordings were made in 1946 for Signature when he played for Johnny Bothwell . In the following years he worked in the jazz bands and orchestras of Boyd Raeburn , Gene Williams , Charlie Ventura , Buddy Morrow and Tommy Dorsey , from 1953 in the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra ; he was also employed as a studio musician and on Broadway . In the 1960s he was in big band productions by JJ Johnson , Jimmy Smith , Stan Getz / Eddie Sauter ( Plays Music from the Soundtrack of Mickey One , 1965), Nat Adderley ( You, Baby ), Wes Montgomery ( Road Song ) , Arif Mardin ( Glass Onion , 1968), Milton Nascimento ( Courage ) and Max Morath ( At the Turn of the Century , 1969). In the 1970s he worked on recordings for Bill Evans / Claus Ogerman ( Symbiosis ), Charles Mingus ( Let My Children Hear Music , 1972), Grover Washington, Jr. ( Soul Box ), Dick Hyman , The Manhattan Transfer , Don Sebesky , Astrud Gilberto , Sylvia Syms , Bob James , Teo Macero , Gato Barbieri , Teresa Brewer and Joey DeFrancesco with; in the early 1990s he was still working with Wynton Marsalis ( Tune in Tomorrow ), Lou Volpe , Wallace Roney , John Pizzarelli and Toshiko Akiyoshi ( Toshiko Plays Toshiko - Time Stream , 1996).

In his later years, Estrin led a studio orchestra that played the music of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra . He also appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra . The New York Times described him as a talented multi-instrumentalist . In the field of jazz he was involved in 77 recording sessions between 1967 and 2016. as a studio musician also with John Denver , Frank Sinatra , Carly Simon and Phoebe Snow .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harvey Estrin Obituary. The New York Times , September 22, 2002, accessed August 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 21, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Estrin, Harvey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1929
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 2002