Ray Linn
Raymond Sayre "Ray" Linn ( born October 20, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois, † November 4, 1996 in Columbus (Ohio ) ) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Life and work
Linn, whose father was a trumpet player who first played with local bands. In 1938 he became a member of the Swing Band by Tommy Dorsey, with whom he remained until 1941, and then to act in Woody Herman (1941 /42). In later years he worked occasionally with Herman, so in 1945, 1947 and 1955-59. In the other 1940s he played with Jimmy Dorsey ( 1942-45 ), Benny Goodman (1943, 1947), Artie Shaw ( 1944-46 ) and 1946 in Boyd Raeburn. In 1945, he moved to Los Angeles, where he was employed full time as a studio musician, he next played with Jesse Price / Dexter Gordon, Billy Eckstine (1947 ), Nat Cole, Bob Crosby (1950 /51) and again with Woody Herman. As a member of Buddy Bregman Orchestra, he accompanied Sarah Vaughan, Anita O'Day (Pick Yourself Up) and Ella Fitzgerald ( 1956) in their songbook albums for Verve; Linn is a soloist can be heard on Bregman's Jazz Album Swingin ' kicks. He also appeared at this time in productions by Shorty Rogers, Milt Bernhart, Les Brown ( the Linn's composition " Where's Prez " grossed ), Bill Holman, Barney Kessel, Johnny Mandel, Mark Murphy ( for which he called " The Way It Was in LA " wrote ) and Red Norvo ( Red Plays the Blues ) with.
In the 1960s he worked mainly for TV productions, such as The Lawrence Welk Show. In the 1980s he lived in Vienna. Under his own name Linn played a 1946 eight pieces, including "West Coast Jump" / " The Mad Monk" ( Atomic ); 1978 and 1980 came two more albums, the latter in the Dixieland style. In 1981, he received a NEA award. After Leonard Feather, he oriented himself early Dizzy Gillespie, but later turned to more mainstream jazz and Dixieland.
Disco printing specifications
- Chicago Jazz (Trend Records, 1978)
- Empty Suit Blues ( Discovery Records, 1980) with Mary Ann McCall, Eddie Miller, Dave Frishberg, Dick Berk
Lexical entries
- Carlo Bohländer and Others, Loeb Classical Jazz guide. Stuttgart 1970
- Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide To Jazz on CD. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 ( 8th Edition )