Henry Jerome

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Henry Jerome (born November 12, 1917 in New York City as Henry Jerome Pasnik , † March 23, 2011 in Plantation (Broward County, Florida) ) was an American jazz trumpeter and big band leader, who later worked as a music producer .

Live and act

Jerome grew up in Norwich . As early as the mid-1930s, he led the ten-piece band Henry Jerome & His Stepping Tones , which accompanied singers like Kay Carlton and also played on the ships of the Cunard Line . He then studied trumpet, composition and arrangement at the Juilliard School of Music and expanded his orchestra to sixteen musicians. Alan Greenspan toured with the orchestra for eighteen months until 1945 as a saxophonist and bass clarinetist before completing his economics degree. Also, Al Cohn , Al Haig and Tiny Kahn were among the band whose sound mid-1940s with bebop -Arrangements trombonist Johnny Mandel was modernized. The orchestra was involved in some of the radio programs broadcast by ABC from the Green Room .

In the late 1940s, Jerome became the musical director of Decca Records . There he also recorded a number of popular and sweetly orchestrated albums ( Brazen Brass ), some of which reached the top 10 internationally , but also the tribute album Memories of Hal Kemp (1957). In 1959, he became the A&R director at Coral Records , where he produced the rock and roll trio and Lenny Dell and the Demensions . He also looked after Johnny Burnette , whose recordings he was responsible for, such as the rockabilly hit "Train Kept a Rollin '", also received critical acclaim. Jerome later recorded other albums for United Artists and wrote the theme songs for the television shows The Soupy Sales Show and Winky-Dink and You . With Phil Ramone he produced the 1970 Grammy Award winning album Promises, Promises .

Discographic notes

  • The First Big Band to Ever Play Bebop (1944–1945)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Leonard Garment, († 2013), who had also played saxophone with Jerome since 1943, before advising Richard Nixon as a lawyer , later brought Greenspan into politics. Cf. A. Greenspan My Life for the Economy Frankfurt a. M. 2007, p. 43f. and Leonard Garment Crazy Rhythm: My Journey from Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street to Nixon's White House, Watergate and Beyond 1997, pp. 26f, 107, obituary (2013) in The New York Times
  2. ↑ In part, Jerome also used the pseudonym Al Mortimer.

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Jerome, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pasnik, Henry M. Jerome (real name); Mortimer, Al (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter and big band leader
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2011
Place of death Plantation (Broward County, Florida)