Warren Luening
Warren H. Luening Jr. (born October 9, 1941 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † March 18, 2012 ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn ).
Live and act
Luening grew up in New Orleans, where he grew up with the city's jazz music tradition and played in a youth band early on. With Roy Wiegand and Charlie May he appeared on The Colgate Comedy Hour on CBS. He then played in Tony Almerico 's All-Stars, a New Orleans jazz band , before joining the orchestra of Lawrence Welk (1958-60). In 1963 he recorded the album Boy Meets Horn under his own name for Dot Records ; In the late 1960s he played in the Ronnie Dupont Quartet at The Bistro Nightclub in New Orleans.
From the 1970s he worked in Los Angeles , where he played in the big bands of Bob Florence and Frank Capp / Nat Pierce . Since then he has been working full-time as a soloist in Hollywood studios and has worked on recordings for film scores such as New York, New York (1977), Menschen am Ruß (1984), Bopha! (1993), The Glass Shield (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), Der Regenmacher (1997) , The Rat Pack (1998), Zurück zu Dir (2000), King Kong (2005) and most recently in 2008 in WALL · E - The last one cleans up the earth . As a studio musician, he has also been involved in recordings by Frank Sinatra , Boots Randolph , The Singers Unlimited , Lalo Schifrin , Dr. John , Burt Bacharach , Neil Diamond , Jaco Pastorius ( Word of Mouth , 1980), Lionel Richie , Weird Al Yankovic , Linda Ronstadt / Nelson Riddle , Diane Schuur , Mel Tormé , Yasuko Agawa , Natalie Cole , Manhattan Transfer , Harry Connick, Jr . , Rosemary Clooney and the Quincy Jones / Sammy Nestico big band. In 2006 he was a member of the Gary Urwin Jazz Orchestra with Bill Watrous and Pete Christlieb ( Kindred Spirits ).
Web links
- Warren Luening at Discogs (English)
- Literature by and about Warren Luening in the catalog of the German National Library
- Warren Luening in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary in ( memento of March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) All About Jazz
- ^ Billboard, November 16, 1963
- ^ Dot Records Discography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luening, Warren |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Luening, Warren H. Jr. (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and studio musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Orleans , Louisiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 2012 |