Jack Fina

Jack Fina ( born August 13, 1913 in Passaic, † May 14, 1970 in Sherman Oaks, California ) was an American bandleader, pianist, arranger and songwriter in the range of swing and popular music ..

Jack Fina studied at the New York College of Music in August Fraemcke and Elsa Nicilini. His career as a musician began in the 1930s in Clyde McCoy's band; he was eventually known by his membership in the orchestra of Freddy Martin in 1936, to listen to his hit " Tonight We Love." For the Freddy Martin Band arranged Fina a swing version of Rimsky -Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee, entitled " Bumble Boogie", which appeared on RCA Victor, # 7 on the Billboard -Charts and 1948 in the Walt Disney animated film Melody Time use was. The studio band B. Bumble and the Stingers had with Fina's arrangement of the title a Hiterfolg in 1961.

After he left Martin in 1946, Fina formed his own 16 -piece band, which debuted at the Claremont Hotel; Singer of the band were Harry Prime and Gil Lewis. Nationally known his orchestra was numerous radio broadcasts and recordings for MGM; it has appeared, among others in New York at the Waldorf -Astoria and appeared in several films with their hits " Bumble Boogie" and "Disc Jockey " (1951). Fina also wrote the themes song "Dream Sonata " and " Chango " and "Piano Portraits ". Members of the orchestra were later known jazz musicians such as Bob Bates, Paul Desmond, Virgil Gonsalves and Herb Geller.

In the 1950s, Fina had the size of his band reduce and settled in San Francisco. There, he led, together with his manager Al King also an artists' agency, the Concerto Music & Entertainment Agency. Beginning of the 1960 Fina played with a smaller ensemble at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where he played for eight years; In 1966 the album More Great Hits In Boogie Woogie ( Dot Records). As a soloist, he has appeared in a television show. In 1970 he returned for an appearance in the Beverly Hills Hotel back, suffered a heart attack and died a short time later at his home in Sherman Oaks.