Dick Cary

Richard Durant "Dick" Cary (* July 10, 1916 in Hartford, Connecticut, † April 6, 1994 in Glendale, California ) was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist and arranger of Traditional Jazz.

Cary learned in the 1920s, first violin, played this with 11 years in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and studied from 1947 to 1952 composition with Stefan Wolpe. His first recordings were made in 1942 with Joe Marsala, 1942/43, he played as a solo pianist in " Nick's " Club in New York and then with Benny Goodman ( 1943), a short time with Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra, Billy Butterfield (1946 ) and Jean Gold Chain (1947). Also during his time in the army from 1944 to 1946 among other events, with Muggsy Spanier and Wild Bill Davison et al for Black & White on. He is best known from his time from 1947 to 1948 at the All - Stars by Louis Armstrong. 1949/50, he was employed by Jimmy Dorsey and a radio station.

In the 1950s he played with many stars of the jazz tradition as Eddie Condon ( tour in the Far East in 1964, as well as arrangements and play in the TV shows), Pee Wee Russell (eg at the Monterey Jazz Festival and the arrangement for his album " By Arrangement Only " ), Bobby Hackett, Jimmy McPartland, Max Kaminsky, Bud Freeman, Ben Pollack, Red Nichols, Bob Crosby. From 1959 he lived in Los Angeles where he ( even symphonic orchestra), a studio musician and music teacher worked as a freelance arranger for various bands. Later, he led 20 years a band of studio musicians, the Tuesday Night Friends, who met weekly at his home and appeared on the Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival 1992. He also often appeared onstage at Dixieland Festival.

In addition to trumpet and piano, he also played alto horn and Mellophone.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Dick Cary and his Tuesday Night Friends ( Arbors, 1993)
  • Got Swing? ( Arbors, 2000)

Swell

  • Carlo Bohländer inter alia: " Reclams jazz leader". Stuttgart, Reclam, 1989
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
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