Med Flory

Meredith Irwin "Med" Flory ( born August 27, 1926 in Logansport, Indiana, † March 12, 2014 in Los Angeles ) was an American musician ( tenor and alto saxophone, clarinet, composition, arrangement ) of modern jazz and actor.

Life and work

Flory, whose mother was an organist, learned from the age of nine, clarinet, played in the school bands. After military service in a band of the Air Force, he studied philosophy at the University of Indiana. Then he worked as an instrumentalist and arranger, among others, Claude Thornhill (1950), Art Mooney and Woody Herman ( 1953). In 1954, he joined New York City, then as a singer in the TV shows by Ray Anthony and 1958 at the Monterey Jazz Festival, he joined band with its own Big on. He worked with changing his own bands as well as with Terry Gibbs ( 1960) and Art Pepper, and then settled in Los Angeles, where he worked as a studio musician, composer and actor. Among other things, he starred in series such as Mannix, Lassie or Bonanza. In 1972 he was co-founder of the formation Supersax, the interpreted choruses of first Charlie Parker with a five-part saxophone section. Their debut album " Supersax Plays Bird " won a Grammy in 1973. 1974 was followed by appearances at various North American festivals and in the following year a tour of Japan. Most of the pieces of the band, the more intensely worked the mid-1980s with the "LA Voices", arranged Flory.