Melvin Solomon

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Melvin "Red" Solomon (* around 1913; † February 16, 2003 in West Palm Beach as Melven Solomon ) was an American jazz and entertainment musician ( trumpet ).

Live and act

Solomon worked in the New York jazz scene from the late 1930s; first recordings were made in 1938 with the Jack Jenney Orchestra ("Swingin 'the Apach'") and the Richard Himber Essex House Orchestra. He also accompanied The Andrews Sisters and Mildred Bailey on record sessions. In the following decade he played a. a. with Freddie Rich , Chick Bullock and in 1943/44 with Raymond Scott . After the war ended, he worked on recordings of Pearl Bailey , Jerry Jerome , Anita O'Day / Will Bradley , Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine ; He also worked in the (studio) orchestras of Tony Pastor , Tommy Dorsey , Ralph Flanagan , and from 1950 with Sy Oliver , Edgar Sampson , Buddy Morrow and Hugo Winterhalter . In the 1950s he was on the television shows of Perry Como and Jackie Gleason . In the field of jazz he was involved in 117 recording sessions between 1938 and 1958, also with Frank Sinatra , Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong . Accompanied by the Bobby Byrne Orchestra, he presented an instrumental version of the pop hit " Oh, Mein Papa " under his own name in the early 1950s .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary. February 23, 2003, accessed July 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Requiem. Local 802, April 5, 2003, accessed July 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 5, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Solomon, Melvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solomon, Red (stage name); Solomon, Melven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1913
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2003
Place of death West Palm Beach