Terry Snyder

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Terry Snyder (* 1916 in New York City ; † March 17, 1963 there ) was an American jazz and entertainment musician ( drums , vibraphone ).

Act

From the 1940s onwards, Snyder worked with Frank Froeba in the band The Five Shades of Blue , with whom the first recordings were made in 1940, and in the following years also with Cliff Edwards , Stuff Smith , Carl Kress , Jerry Jerome , Sarah Vaughan , Ralph Flanagan , Jerry Jerome and Hot Lips Page . In the following decade he played in the studio orchestras of Norman Leyden , Percy Faith , Richard Maltby , Edgar Sampson , Hugo Winterhalter , Neal Hefti , Fred Karlin , Bobby Byrne and the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra ; He was also involved in recordings as a studio musician. a. by Buddy Weed , Claude Thornhill , Jimmy Lytell , Pearl Bailey , Bill Clifton , Eddie Heywood , Russ Emery , Benny Goodman , Jimmy Dorsey , The Delta Rhythm Boys , Tony Mottola , Stu Phillips , Connie Boswell , Duke Ellington Orchestra ( A Drum Is a Woman , 1956), Charlie Barnet , Bobby Short , Will Bradley and Don Costa .

Under his own name he published singles such as "Exotic Sound" and albums such as Gentle Purr-Cussion , Persuasive Percussion , World of Sound and Mister Percussion under his own name on the Enoch Lights Command label, on United Artists Records and Columbia Records in easy listening style ; in his ensemble Terry Snyder and The All Stars played a. a. Dick Hyman , Jack Lesberg , Stanley Webb , Teddy Sommer , Tony Mottola and Willie Rodriguez . In the field of jazz he was involved in 133 recording sessions between 1940 and 1960.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 16, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Snyder, Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1963
Place of death New York City