Louis King Garcia
Louis "King" Garcia (* 25. August 1905 in Puerto Rico ; † 9. April 1983 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American jazz - trumpet player and bandleader.
Live and act
Garcia, who came from Puerto Rico , was best known as a musician in the bands of the brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey . He came into contact with jazz while he was still in high school when he played in the band of Manuel Tizol, who was an uncle of the Ellington trombonist Juan Tizol , in San Juan . After working for the Victor Recording Orchestra , Garcia settled permanently in the United States in the early 1920s. In the middle of the decade he also played with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ; then he went on tour in Emil Coleman's orchestra. During his work in the orchestra of the Dorsey Brothers he had the opportunity for the only recording session under his own name ( Louis "King" Garcia & His Swingband ) for Bluebird , where the popular Chu Berry / Andy Razaf song "Christopher Columbus" was created and # 16 the hit parade reached. Herbie Haymer , Adrian Rollini , Joe Marsala and Carmen Mastren played in his studio band .
Garcia also played in Ben Selvin's band , in 1935 in the Vic Berton Orchestra and in 1936 in Richard Himber's dance band. In 1939 he was a member of the Louis Prima Big Band. In the 1940s he returned to the Emil Coleman Orchestra; otherwise he mainly worked as a studio musician, including for the singer Amanda Randolph. In the late 1940s he led his own short-lived Latin band. After moving from California in the 1950s, he left the music scene and finally had to give up the job entirely for health reasons.
The musician should not be confused with the band leader Luis Garcia ( Connexion Latina ).
literature
- Basilio Serrano: Puerto Rican Pioneers in Jazz, 1900-1939: Bomba Beats to Latin Jazz, Iuniverse Inc., 2015, ISBN 1491747714 , ISBN 978-1491747711 .
- Gerhard Klußmeier: Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garcia, Louis King |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garcia, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter and band leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Puerto Rico |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 9, 1983 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |