Harry Klein

Harry Klein ( born December 25, 1928 in London, † June 30, 2010 ) was a British jazz musician (clarinet, alto saxophone).

Klein began his career in the late 1940s in the band of Nat Gonella. He then played with Bill Le Sage, Tommy Whittle and Kenny Baker, before he and the orchestra of Stan Kenton went on tour in 1956. Klein worked in the 1950s and 1960s for several years with Stan Tracey and participated in recordings of Tubby Hayes, Sammy Davis, Jr., Victor Feldman, Dudley Moore and Champion Jack Dupree with. In the 1960s and 1970s he worked mostly as a studio musician for English pop and rock bands. So he took part in some of the songs of the White album of the Beatles in 1968, when ragtime number " Honey Pie " as a clarinetist and at the Harrison composition " Savoy Truffle " as a saxophonist. He was also with Ronnie Scott to the four saxophonists who were heard on the Beatles' "Lady Madonna". Klein also participated in recordings of the band Caravan.