Kenny Soderblom

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Kenneth "Kenny" Soderblom (born October 5, 1925 - June 19, 2019 ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( saxophone , clarinet , flute ).

Live and act

Soderbloom came from a humble background; his father was a tool and paint maker and his mother a beautician. His father planned to take over the family business. However, when he returned from military service in World War II, he decided to become a musician. He played a number of woodwind instruments ; He started playing the clarinet in high school and eventually switched to the tenor saxophone as the main instrument. In the post-war period he worked as a studio musician in radio and television advertising, as an orchestral musician with stars such as Burt Bacharach , Harry Belafonte , Natalie Cole , Ella Fitzgerald , Quincy Jones , Henry Mancini , Frank Sinatra , Sonny & Cher and The Temptations . He also toured with Gerry Mulligan and Louis Bellson, and has accompanied vocalists including Rosemary Clooney , Sarah Vaughan , Nancy Wilson , Tony Bennett , Sammy Davis Jr. , Liza Minnelli and Lena Horne .

Soderbloom led his own group with which he appeared at the Chicago Jazz Festival , performed with the Chicago Symphony and played with the CBS-Chicago Staff Orchestra. He has performed several times at New York's Carnegie Hall and was musical director at Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park in California. He directed the Jazz at the Bayfront festival for many years . He lived in Florida from the late 1990s. In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in 25 recording sessions between 1956 and 2009, mostly in Chicago a. a. with Paul Severson , Bill Russo and His Orchestra, Lucy Reed , Sture Swenson / Jack Noren , Mike Simpson, Tony Martell , Oliver Nelson ( Fantabulous , 1964), Clarence Shaw , Bunky Green , Warren Kime, Bobby Christian and Les Hooper. In 1995/96 he took on the album I Dream of Jeanie under his own name , in which Kenny Drew junior , Rick Shaw and Eddie Metz junior were involved. In 2009 he recorded the album You and the Night and the Music with his wife Leah .

Discographic notes

  • As Long As I Live (1998)
  • April in Paris: Kenny & Leah McCoy (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kenny Soderblom obituary. Legacy.com, December 28, 2019, accessed December 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 28, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Soderblom, Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soderblom, Kenneth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and studio musician (saxophone, clarinet, flute)
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1925
DATE OF DEATH 19th June 2019