Jules Jacob (jazz musician)

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Jules Jacob (also Jules Jacobs , * around 1925; † 2008 ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( tenor saxophone , flute , oboe , English horn ).

Live and act

Jacob worked in the Californian music scene from the mid-1940s with Boyd Raeburn (who also made his first recordings in 1946), Billy Eckstine , Hoagy Carmichael / Jerry Gray , Peggy Lee / Billy May , The Four Freshmen , Keely Smith , Eartha Kitt , Bing Crosby , Harry Belafonte , Ella Fitzgerald , Conrad Gozzo and Barney Kessel . In the field of jazz he was involved in 28 recording sessions between 1946 and 1961. As a busy session musician, Jacob worked in the 1960s on albums such as Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys (1966), Lumpy Gravy by Frank Zappa (1968) and Our Mother the Mountain by Townes Van Zandt (1969). He has also worked with Pat Boone , June Christy , Doris Day , Mickey Katz , Frankie Laine , Dean Martin , Ella Mae Morse , Harry Nilsson , Nancy Wilson and The Monkees throughout his career

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Report of death at. Local 802, September 5, 2008, accessed July 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 12, 2018)
  3. ↑ Jacob was a flautist in the instrumental number Let's Go Away for Awhile .
personal data
SURNAME Jacob, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobs, Jules (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1925
DATE OF DEATH 2008