Sam Margolis

Samuel "Sam" D. Margolis (born November 1, 1923 in Boston ; † March 20, 1996 ) was an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , clarinet ).

Live and act

Margolis, who was influenced by Louis Armstrong , Lester Young and Bud Freeman , played in the Boston area in the 1940s in bands that accompanied guest musicians such as Vic Dickenson , Bobby Hackett , Shad Collins and Rex Stewart ; In 1949 he was a member of Nat Pierce's orchestra , with which the first recordings were made. From the mid-1950s he worked frequently with Ruby Braff in New York City , to be heard on his albums Hustlin 'and Bustlin' (Storyville, 1955), Ruby Braff Special (Vanguard, 1955) and most recently on Very Sinatra (1981). With Braff and Pee Wee Russell he made guest appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 . In the 1970s he had his own quintet, with which he also performed in New York. In the field of jazz he was involved in 14 recording sessions between 1949 and 1981. He worked in the Boston area until the mid-1980s before moving to Florida, where he still performed with local bands.

literature

• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

• Sam Margolis at Allmusic (English)
• Sam Margolis at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data at Columbia.edu
2. ↑ Information on Sam Margolis in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
3. ↑ All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music , ed. by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine. 2002
4. ↑ ^{a b} Lawrence McClellan: The Later Swing Era, 1942 to 1955 . 2004, p. 249
5. ↑ Sam Margolis can be heard as a soloist in Hustlin 'and Bustlin', Shoe Shine Boy and There's a Small Hotel . See Scott Yanow : Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years , 2003.
6. ^ New York Magazine July 18, 1977.
7. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 16, 2015)