Milt Orent

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Tadd Dameron , Hank Jones , Dizzy Gillespie , Milt Orent. In Mary Lou Williams' apartment, NYC, circa August 1947.
Tadd Dameron, Hank Jones, Mary Lou Williams and Milt Orent in Williams' apartment, circa August 1947

Milton H. "Milt" Orent (born April 3, 1918 in New York , † February 26, 1975 in Florida ) was an American musician ( double bass ), arranger and songwriter .

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Orent's father immigrated from Russia in 1891; his mother was from Massachusetts . He had a classical music education and worked in New York as a studio musician and arranger for the radio station NBC . Although not a jazz musician himself, he was interested in modern jazz , had a profound knowledge of 20th century classical European music and had been friends with jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams since the late 1930s . Orent wrote the lyrics to her composition "(In the Land Of) Oo-Bla-Dee" (which was recorded at the time by Allen Eager , Dizzy Gillespie , Benny Goodman , Wardell Gray , Junior Mance and later by Mark Murphy ) . The writer Fritz Rudolf Fries processed the title of the song in his debut novel Der Weg nach Oobliadooh (1966); "It says in the original lyrics I met a beautiful princess in the land of Oo-bla-dee , one reads in Fries: I knew a wonderful princess in the land of Oobliadooh ."

Orent also assisted Williams in orchestrating the Zodiac Suite in 1945 . Other compositions that Orent wrote or worked on include "Nocturne to a Somnambulist" (1945), "(Otto Make That) Riff Staccato" (with Si Schwartz and Ray Nance , recorded by the Duke Ellington Orchestra and among others Gene Krupa ), "Baby Face McFall" (with Hal Graham) and "Whistle Blues" (1947, with Mary Lou Williams). In the field of jazz he was involved in four recording sessions between 1945 and 1950, including with Buddy Tate ("Heart Breakin 'Baby" / "Rock With Me Mama", 1950). In 1954 he took part in the recordings of the pianist Fletcher Peck.

From 1946 he was a member of the ASCAP .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ASCAP Dictionary of authors, composers, songs & music , p. 378
  2. ↑ In Memoriam , ASCAP Today, p. 41
  3. ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7XC-ZYT
  4. ↑ Linda Dahl: Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou Williams . 2012
  5. ↑ Quoted from Lisanne Ebert, Carola Gruber and Benjamin Meisnitzer: Emotionale Grenzzüge . Conceptualizations of love, grief and fear in language and literature. Verlag Königshausen and Neumann, 2011. P. 76 ISBN 9783826043321
  6. ↑ http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/ijs/mlw/modern_1.html
  7. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3, 1945
  8. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AOrent%2C+Milton+H.%2C&qt=hot_author
  9. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 8, 2015)
  10. ^ ASCAP Today
personal data
SURNAME Orent, Milt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orent, Milton H. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician (double bass), arranger and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1975
Place of death Florida