Henry Jerome

Henry Jerome ( born November 12, 1917 in New York City as Henry Jerome Pasnik, † March 23, 2011 in Plantation ( Florida)) is an American jazz trumpeter and big band leader who later worked as a music producer.

Life and work

Jerome grew up in Norwich. Already in the mid-1930s, he led the ten -piece band Henry Jerome & His Stepping Tones, who accompanied singers such as Kay Carlton and also played on the ships of the Cunard Line. Then he studied the trumpet, composition and arrangement at the Juilliard School of Music and extended his orchestra to sixteen musicians. For eighteen months touring until 1945 as a saxophonist and bass clarinetist Alan Greenspan with the orchestra before he completed his studies in economics. [A 1] Also, Al Cohn, Al Haig and Tiny Kahn belonged to the band whose sound mid-1940s with bebop arrangements trombonist Johnny Mandel was modernized. The orchestra was involved in some radio programs, ABC sent out the Green Room.

In the late 1940s, Jerome was then musical director of Decca Records. He also took a number of popular and there sweetly orchestrated albums ( Brazen Brass ), some of which reached the top 10 international, but also the tribute album Memories of Hal Kemp ( 1957). In 1959, he became A & R Director at Coral Records, where he produced the Rock and Roll Trio and Lenny Dell and the Demensions. He also oversaw Johnny Burnette there whose responsible of him shots like the rockabilly hit " Train Kept a Rollin ' " also found in the critique recognition. Later Jerome took on additional albums for United Artists and wrote the theme songs for the television shows The Soupy Sales Show and Winky Dink and You. [A 2] With Phil Ramone, he produced in 1970 with a Grammy award-winning album Promises, Promises.

Disco Graphical Notes

• The First Big Band to Ever Play Bebop (1944-1945)