Herbie Kay
Herbie Kay , also Herbie Kaye (* 1904 as Herbert Kaumeyer ; † May 11, 1944 in Dallas ) was an American trumpeter and big band leader in the field of popular music .
Career
Herbie Kaye's career as a musician began at Northwestern University , where he had joined various ensembles while studying. With his first own formation he appeared in the Chicago area in the early 1930s ; this band played in clubs such as the Blackhawk Restaurant in Chicago, and later they had engagements in the Santa Catalina Casino and the Sebastian's Cotton Club in Los Angeles in the Chicago Drake Hotel , the Lakeside in Denver and the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco . Kaye also appeared with his orchestra in a 1937 Paramount Pictures short music film . Kaye recorded for the Columbia and Vocalion labels .
His band vocalists included Ellen Conner, Wynne Fair and, in 1934, the young Dorothy Lamour , who became Kaye's wife in 1935 and left the Kaye band in 1936 to go to Hollywood; In 1939 the two divorced again. In 1942 the Herbie Kay Band performed at the Lake Club in Springfield, Illinois . Kaye gave up his orchestra in the early 1940s; he died in Dallas in 1944 at the age of forty.
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- Leo Walker: The Big Band Almanac . Da Capo Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-306-80345-3 (reprinted from ed. Pasadena, Calif. 1978).
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| SURNAME | Kay, Herbie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaye, Herbie; Kaumeyer, Herbert (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter and big band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1904 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1944 |
| Place of death | Dallas |