Larry Weiss (jazz musician)

Larry Weiss (actually: Lawrence Edward Weiss * March 25, 1927 in Newark ; † beginning of February 2011 in Cedar Grove ) was an American musician ( cornet , piano ) of old-time jazz .

Live and act

Weiss began performing semi-professionally in Essex County, New Jersey , along with his older clarinet brother, Seymour, during his high school years in the 1940s . His role model was the trumpeter Bobby Hackett , with whom he performed in later years. In 1945 he joined the US Navy at the age of 17 after graduating from Bloomfield High School . After returning to New Jersey in 1949, he studied at Rutgers University in Newark, where he earned his bachelor's degree and then worked full-time at the radio station WVNJ in Newark and for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in New York .

He also played semi-professionally in the 1950s and 1960s in venues such as Harold's Club in West Orange and Meadowbrook in Cedar Grove , where he lived for the last 35 years of his life. In the late 1960s he worked in the Dixieland revival scene with various bands, as in Chuck Slates Traditional Jazz Band and Bob Thompson s Red Onion Jazz Band . Weiss worked as a freelance musician mainly in the New Jersey and New York area , played in Eddie Condon ’s jazz club in New York and took part in fifteen albums between 1970 and 2002: As a pianist, he recorded the duo album Haunting Melody with the Clarinetist Joe Licari on; as a cornet player he can be heard on Swingin 'and Singin' (1990) by Warren Vaché senior . He was a founding member of the New Jersey Jazz Society . Weiss died in early February 2011 at the age of 83.

Larry Weiss should not be confused with the singer-songwriter of the same name (* 1941).

Web links

• Larry Weiss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Memories of Larry Weiss from Ray Cerino on Jazz Lives

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} obituary at northjersey.com
2. ↑ Information about the Red Onion Jazz band at rate your music
3. ↑ Tom Lord Discography