Manny Klein

Manny Klein , also Mannie Klein (born February 4, 1908 in New York City as Emmanuel Klein , † May 31, 1994 in Los Angeles ) was an American trumpeter in the field of swing and popular music .

Live and act

Manny Klein began his music career in 1928 in the orchestras of Paul Whiteman and Roger Wolfe Kahn ; in the 1930s he was a member of various big bands such as Adrian Rollini , Irving Mills , the Dorsey Brothers , Ben Selvin , Claude Thornhill and Benny Goodman . In 1937 he moved to California and worked with Frank Trumbauer's orchestra. In the early 1940s he worked under the name Mannie Klein on recordings of Artie Shawand his orchestra with. He was also involved in several film soundtracks; so he played the trumpet for the film Damn for All Eternity (1953). In the 1950s and 1960s he played in the orchestras of Georgie Auld , Pete Rugolo ( 10 Trumpets and 2 Guitars , 1961), Hal Mooney , Glen Gray , Billy May , Quincy Jones and took part in the recordings of Frankie Laine and Dean Martin . In the hit version of the theme song from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Hugo Montenegro he played piccolo trumpet .

Klein recorded some shellac records under his own name for Brunswick (1936), Keynote (1946) and Coral (1947). In 1959 he produced an LP in a sextet line-up, The Sound of Music , with the score for the music film Meine Lieder - Meine Träume (1965).

In 1970 he suffered a stroke and , as a result, dyslexia , which made it impossible for him to read notes. After his rehabilitation he was active as a musician until the 1990s.

literature

• Allen P. Britton, Michael Meckna: Twentieth-Century Brass Soloists. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn, 1994.
• Michael Cuscuna , Michel Ruppi: The Blue Note Label. A discography. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. 2001.
• Colin Larkin : The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 3. Edition. Macmillan, New York, NY 1998.

Web links

• Manny Klein at Allmusic (English)
• Manny Klein in the Internet Movie Database (English)