Lou Oles
Louis "Lou" Oles (born October 29, 1923 in New Haven , † August 19, 1967 in Kanagawa , Japan ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( trumpet ).
Live and act
Oles played around 1946/47 in the short-lived first Buddy Rich Big Band , with which recordings were made; He also worked during this time with Boyd Raeburn ("March of the Boyds"), in the following decade with the Billy Byers Orchestra, on whose recordings with Coleman Hawkins ( The Hawk in Hi-Fi ) he participated. He was also on recordings of Ralph Burns , Bob Brookmeyer , Steve Allen and the Dixieland formation The Four Lads (Album With the Swingin 'Nine Minus Two (1961), among others with Phil Bodner , Osie Johnson , Carmen Mastren , Lou McGarity , Moe Wechsler and Joe Sherman ) involved in a total of 29 recording sessions in jazz between 1944 and 1960.
As a session musician, Oles has also worked with Sam Cooke , Mahalia Jackson , Tony Bennett , Bobby Short , Johnny Ray , Eartha Kitt and Rosemary Clooney ; also 1949/50 as a theater musician on Broadway ( The Rat Race ). In 1965 he founded the Ohsawa Foundation of Macrobiotic Nutrition in Los Angeles .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi (ed.): History of Macrobiotics (1715-2017): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook . Lafayette, California, Soyinfo Center, 2017, p. 102
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 11, 2017)
- ^ Entry in the Internet Broadway Database
- ↑ William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi: History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (1647-2015) . Lafayette (California), Soyinfo Center, 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Oles, Lou |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oles, Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Haven |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th August 1967 |
| Place of death | Kanagawa , Japan |