Heinie Beau
Heinie Beau (born March 8, 1911 in Calvary , Wisconsin , † April 19, 1987 in Burbank , Los Angeles County ) was an American musician ( woodwind instruments ) and arranger .
Live and act
Beau played in the early 1940s with Red Nichols and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (with Frank Sinatra ), for which the first arrangements were made ( Violets for Your Furs 1941); In the middle of the decade he took part in recordings for Capitol Records with Peggy Lee , Billy May and Jo Stafford . In 1946 he was a member of the Artie Shaw Orchestra; the following year he played with Benny Goodman and Woody Herman and His Orchestra . In 1951 recordings were made with Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden. Beau also arranged for Red Nichols (1945), Ziggy Elman (1950), Peggy Lee and Jeri Southern ( Occasional Man , 1955). For example, Beau, who worked for Sinatra from the Dorsey era to the reprise phase, wrote the arrangements for Sinatra's Columbia recording Birth of the Blues (1952) and for Lean Baby (Capitol, 1953). Beau also worked with Sinatra on his last two Capitol albums, Come Swing With Me (1961) and Point of No Return . During this time he was the musical director of Milton Berle's variety show.
The album Moviesville Jazz: Heinie Beau and His Hollywood Jazz Stars (Coral) was created under his own name in June 1958 , on which well-known musicians of West Coast jazz participated such as John Graas , Don Fagerquist , Howard Roberts , Red Mitchell , Ted Nash and Red Callender . In 1958 he played in Ray Anthony's big band Dixieland . In the field of jazz he was involved in 249 recording sessions between 1940 and 1984, in addition to the aforementioned also with Dave Barbour , Jess Stacy , Maxwell Davis , Ted Nash, The Kings of Dixieland, Gene Krupa , Dick Cathcart , Ella Fitzgerald .
Discographic notes
- Heinie Beau & His Hollywood Quartet (1980), with Alvin Stoller , Arnold Ross , Morty Corb
- Blues for Two (1982), with Ray Leatherwood , Nick Fatool , Ray Sherman, Eddie Miller
- Heinie Beau & His Hollywood Sextet: Midnight Clarinet (1984), with Morty Corb , Jack Sperling , Jake Hanna , Johnny Varro , Bob Havens , Gene Estes
Web links
- Portrait of Marc Myers (2014)
- Heinie Beau at Allmusic (English)
- Heinie Beau at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beau, Heinie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician and arranger |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calvary (Wisconsin) , Wisconsin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1987 |
| Place of death | Burbank, Los Angeles County |