King Garcia

Louis "King" Garcia ( * in Puerto Rico) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

Garcia, a native of Puerto Rico, was known primarily as a musician in the bands of brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Even in his time in high school, he came into contact with the Jazz when he played in San Juan in the band of Manuel Tizol, who was an uncle of the Ellington trombonist Juan Tizol. After he had worked for the Victor Recording Orchestra, to Garcia in the early 1920s was finally settled in the United States. In the middle of the decade, he also played with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band; then he went in the orchestra of Emil Coleman on tour. During his work in the orchestra of the Dorsey Brothers, he had the opportunity to be the only recording session under his own name (Louis "King" Garcia & His Swing Band ) for Bluebird in the then popular Chu Berry / Andy Razaf song " Christopher Columbus " was created and # 16 reached the charts. In his studio band, among others played Herbie Haymer, Adrian Rollini, Joe Marsala and Carmen Mastren.

Garcia also played in the band of Ben Selvin, 1935 at Vic Berton Orchestra and in 1936 Richard Himbers dance band. In 1939 he was one of Louis Prima Big on tape. In the 1940s, he returned to the Emil Coleman Orchestra; otherwise, he worked primarily as a studio musician, including for the singer Amanda Randolph. In the late 1940s he led his own short-lived Latin Band. After his departure from California, he left in the 1950s, the music scene and eventually had to give up due to health reasons the profession altogether.

The musician is not to be confused with the band leader Luis Garcia ( Connexion Latina).