Jack Millman
Jack Maurice Millman (born November 21, 1930 in Detroit ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet and flugelhorn ), arranger , composer and music producer , who became famous for his sessions with West Coast jazz musicians.
Live and act
Millman took trumpet lessons from Rafael Mendez and Shorty Rogers ; he also studied composition, orchestration and arrangement with Alexander Laslo and Eric Zeisl. During his college days he composed an orchestral suite, Reflections in Thought & Conception, and directed a performance by the University Symphony Orchestra. At seventeen he played briefly with Lionel Hampton ; After completing his military service, he began to work as a musician, composer and arranger in the early 1950s; In 1952 he took part in recordings with the Stan Kenton Orchestra ( Mambo Rhapsody ); In 1955 he was a member of the Pérez Prado Orchestra. He became known in the mid-1950s for his recording sessions with musicians of West Coast jazz; so he put his debut album, the EP Jazz Studio 4 , on Decca Records in 1955 , for which he wrote compositions that u. a. arranged by Don Friedman , Gerald Wiggins , Jimmy Giuffre , Shorty Rogers, Jack Montrose , Spud Murphy , Chico Alvarez , Pete Rugolo, and Bill Holman . The musicians in his studio formations, with whom he recorded three more albums, also included u. a. Lin Halliday , Buddy Collette , Chico Hamilton , Maynard Ferguson , Ralph Peña , Herb Geller , Shelly Manne , Bob Gordon , Barney Kessel and Claude Williamson .
Millman also performed with an 18-piece big band at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California, where he eventually shifted his musical activities to surf and rock music and worked with Dick Dale , Jan & Dean , the Beach Boys and other groups. In 1962 he gave up playing the trumpet and built a music library in Hollywood, but continued his work as a composer, among other things. a. for movie soundtracks. He performed his Jazz Symphonies with the New World Symphony Orchestra . In the late 1970s he founded the media company Startime Video Jukebox ; In the mid-1980s he moved to Santa Fé , where he worked as a music critic for the Santa Fe Reporter . He also composed and taught at the College of Santa Fe; also produced programs for National Public Radio and founded the music company High Desert Beat Productions . From 2002 he lived in West Palm Beach , Florida .
Discographic notes
- Jazz Studio 4 (Decca, 1955) with Maynard Ferguson
- Jack Millman and His All-Stars (Fresh Sound, 1955), with Chico Hamilton , Maynard Ferguson, Ralph Peña , Herb Geller , Shelly Manne , Bob Gordon , Barney Kessel , Claude Williamson , Red Norvo
- Four More (Fresh Sound, 1956) with Lin Halliday, Don Friedman, Don Patterson
- Blowing Up a Storm (Progressive, 1957) with Don Friedman , Don Peterson, Ray Tiedel.
- Shades of Things to Come (Liberty, Fresh Sound, 1957) with Jimmy Giuffre, Buddy Collette, Larry Bunker , Harry Babasin , Frank Capp
Web links
- Jack Millman at Allmusic (English)
- Jack Millman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jack Millman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ a b Biographical information at yahoo answers
- ↑ See Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 1988
- ↑ Information about the album Jazz Studio 4 at All About Jazz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Discographic information on the later editions of Jazz Studio 4
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| SURNAME | Millman, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Millman, Jack Maurice (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (trumpet and flugelhorn), arranger and composer and record producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 21, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Detroit |