Sam Most

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Sam Most (2009)

Sam Most (* 16 December 1930 in Atlantic City , New Jersey ; † 13. June 2013 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American flutist and tenor saxophonist of the cool jazz and bebop . He was considered one of the pioneers and virtuoso players of the jazz flute ; According to Leonard Feather , he was "the first creative jazz flutist."

Live and act

Most grew up in the New York Bronx . The younger brother of the clarinetist Abe Most initially oriented himself towards his brother. After graduating from City College and the Manhattan School of Music , he played from 1948 in the big bands of Tommy Dorsey (1948), Boyd Raeburn and Don Redman . Probably in 1948 he received his first flute. He made the first recordings under his own name in 1953; it included Benny Goodman's “Undercurrent Blues” interpreted on the flute , whose interpretation strongly influenced other musicians such as Herbie Mann ; the following year Most was named a “new star” in the Down Beat critics poll . Further albums followed in the 1950s (with Bethlehem , Debut , Prestige and Vanguard ), with which he established his reputation as one of the best melodic jazz flutists and on which he also played clarinet in some cases . He was a member of Buddy Rich's band from 1959 to 1961 and then moved to Los Angeles , where he worked as a studio musician. He continued to record his own albums (in the 1970s with Xanadu, for example Mostly Flute 1976 and Flute Flight 1976) and played in clubs in the Los Angeles area, sometimes with his brother Abe.

Most played with Herbie Mann, Ray Brown , Louie Bellson , Red Norvo , Ali Ryerson and Tamami Koyake, among others . In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in 93 recording sessions between 1953 and 2010. most recently with Mort Weiss ( Meets Bill Cunliffe ).

In 2001 Edmond Goff made the documentary Sam Most - Jazz Flutist about him . Most were supporters of Bahaitums and worked with other Baha'i musicians.

Discographic notes

  • Bebop Revisited, Vol. 3 (Xanadu Records, 1954)
  • The Herbie Mann-Sam Most Quintet (Avenue, 1955)
  • Mostly Flute (Xanadu Records, 1976)
  • Flute Flight (Xanadu Records, 1976)
  • From the Attic of My Mind (Elemental / Xanadu, 1978)
  • Flute Talk (Xanadu, 1979)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary (English)
  2. ↑ Pioneer of the jazz flute: Sam Most is dead ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Frankfurter Neue Presse , June 15, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fnp.de
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 28, 2019)
  4. ↑ Newsletter of the Oxnard and Ventura Bahá'í Communities ( Memento of January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ CupMusic.com Track Listings and Comments
personal data
SURNAME Most, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlantic City , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH 13th June 2013
Place of death Los Angeles , California