Loren Schoenberg
Loren Schoenberg ( born July 22, 1958 in Fair Lawn ( New Jersey)) is an American jazz musician (tenor saxophonist, bandleader, arranger ) and Jazz historian. He leads the Jazz Museum in Harlem; his own band maintains primarily swing music.
Life
Schoenberg received by his mother from the age of piano lessons, and later by a private piano teacher. Since the early 1970s he worked on the music of Benny Goodman and collected old shellac discs with early jazz. During this time he also took hours with Teddy Wilson, Paul Shaffer, Hank Jones and Sanford gold. At the age of 15 he taught himself as self-taught in the saxophone playing. Since 1976, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music; During this time he played with Eddie Durham. In 1979 he produced a concert at Carnegie Hall, paid tribute to the music of Charlie Parker and Lester Young, and occurred in the musician such as Howard McGhee, Joe Albany, Buddy Anderson, Dicky Wells, Eddie Bert, Herb Ellis and Mel Lewis.
At the beginning of the 1980s, commissioned him Goodman with the filing of its arrangements; later he became his assistant and then his manager. During this time he also founded his large-scale rehearsal band with which he played the jazz of the thirties to the fifties and the Blue Note, Michael 's Pub and Carnegie Hall occurred; In 1985, the band was hired by Goodman. Starting in 1982, Schoenberg had a weekly radio program (initially at WKCR ), where he played historical recordings and musicians interviewed. Between 1986 and 1992 he was a member of the American Jazz Orchestra, first as a saxophonist, and later as musical director. During this time caught up with him and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the WDR Big Band Cologne as a guest conductor for productions of works by George Gershwin and Duke Ellington; together with Mel Lewis, he headed to Japan an orchestra that performed the Third Stream compositions by Gunther Schuller. Between 1995 and 2005 he was the musical director and saxophonist of the band of Bobby Short. He also was involved in recordings of Benny Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath and David Murray. He also played with Peanuts Hucko and Buck Clayton.
As a jazz author Schoenberg wrote for The New York Times and wrote contributions for the Lester Young Reader, The Oxford Companion to Jazz, and Masters of the Jazz Saxophone. He also acted as advisor for the TV series Jazz by Ken Burns. Since 2002 he has headed the Jazz Museum in Harlem. He is a university teacher at the Juilliard School and had previously teaching at The New School, the Manhattan School of Music, William Paterson University, the State University of New York (Purchase ) and the Long Iceland University.
Schoenberg gave out an extensive box with historical recordings of Benny Goodman. His authored with Dan Morgenstern liner notes for historical recordings of Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman was awarded a Grammy.
Discography
- That's the Way It Goes ( 1984)
- Time Waits for No One ( 1987)
- Solid Ground (1988 )
- Just A - Settin ' and A- Rockin' (1989 )
- Manhattan Work Song (1992 )
- Out of this World (1999)
Writings
- NPR Curious Listener 's Guide to Jazz. Perigee Books 2002