Zeke Zarchy

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Rubin "Zeke" Zarchy (* 12. June 1915 in New York City ; † 12. April 2009 in Irvine , California ) was an American jazz trumpeter of Swing . He is best known as a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra ( Army Air Force Orchestra ).

Zarchy played in leading swing bands from the mid-1930s, first with Joe Haymes (1935) when he was barely 20 , and in that of Benny Goodman (1936), Bob Crosby (1937 to 1939), Artie Shaw (1936/37 ), Tommy Dorsey (1939) and finally Glenn Miller. He played first with Miller in 1940, was in the NBC Orchestra in New York from 1940 to 1942 and then from 1943 in Miller's Army Air Force Band as Master Sergeant . He practically ran the band under Miller and was also the last member of the band Miller spoke in December 1944 before his tragic flight. He stayed in Miller's ghost band in the 1940s and toured the world with them. In the early 1950s he settled in Los Angeles as a sought-after studio musician. He has accompanied singers like Frank Sinatra and has appeared in the soundtrack of well-known Hollywood films like Dr. Zhivago , West Side Story and The Glenn Miller Story . He also played with his idol Louis Armstrong . Zarchy has been in the house band of various Columbia Broadcasting System TV shows such as Danny Kaye and the NBC Orchestra.

He played jazz in the Great Pacific Jazz Band until the 1980s . In later years he toured many places around the world (very often in Japan) and taught trumpeters. He has recorded with Goodman, Shaw, Miller, Dorsey, Bob Crosby, Mildred Bailey and Red Norvo , among others .

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SURNAME Zarchy, Zeke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zarchy, ruby
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2009
Place of death Irvine (California)