Edwin Finckel

Edwin A. " Eddie" Finckel ( born December 23, 1917 in Washington DC; † 7 May 2001, Madison, New Jersey ) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger.

Life and work

Edwin Finckel began under the influence of the music of Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum to play the piano. He studied at Columbia University with Otto Luening, George Antheil and John Cage. From the 1940s onwards, he worked as an arranger for bandleader Boyd Raeburn as, Les Brown, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. He also wrote music for movies such as Red Roses for Me and George White's Scandals (1945 ). He composed the title Leave Us Leap, Quiet Riot, Gypsy Mood, Up and atom, Bolero Boogie, El Mundo and starburst. Among his most famous songs was Where is the One, the Frank Sinatra on his album Where Are You? grossed. As a pianist played Finckel, inter alia, with Max Roach, Allen Eager and Lester Young.

Finckel, who worked primarily as a music teacher from the 1950s ( until his death in a music school Brook School in Short Hills ( New Jersey)), wrote more than 200 compositions for various ensembles. Among them are vocal and orchestral works, instrumental concerts, and theater and ballet music. 1992/93 he composed ensemble for the Omega. He also published a collection of round songs, which also contains its own round of songs. His son David Finkel, who plays as a cellist in the Emerson String Quartet, recorded several works of his father, including a suite for cello and piano ( Of Human Kindness ), the songs of Spring and a revised version of a jazz standards, Variations on a Theme: Willow Weep for Me

Writings

  • Now We'll Make the Rafters Ring: Classic and Contemporary Rounds for Everyone. A Cappella Books, 1993, ISBN 1-55652-186-3.
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