Jimmy Mundy

James " Jimmy" Mundy ( born June 28, 1907 in Cincinnati, † April 28, 1983 in New York City ) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger, particularly for Benny Goodman and Count Basie.

Mundy initially learned violin and other instruments, and played from 1926 in Chicago as a tenor saxophonist with Erskine Tate, Tommy Miles and Carroll Dickerson. From 1932 he worked for four years with Earl Hines, where he moved increasingly from the saxophone in the role of composer and arranger. There he was recruited in 1936 by Benny Goodman, for whom he. Thenceforth arranged ( with known arrangements like " Air Mail Special ," " Sing Sing Sing ", " Solo Flight " ) 1939/1940 he had ( with whom he also absorbed, a plate with his recordings until 1947, appeared in Classics ) in New York his own band. He arranged in 1940 for Paul Whiteman, Count Basie ( 1940-1947 ), Gene Krupa, Dizzy Gillespie (1949 ), Charlie Spivak, Harry James, Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt among others In 1958 he recorded an album for Epic. In 1959 he moved to Paris, where he worked as musical director of the record company Barclay Disques. In the 1960s, he returned to the U.S., where he remained until the 1970s active as an arranger. Together with Charles Carpenter he wrote A Lover Is Blue.

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