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Frank J. Szabo (born September 16, 1952, died July 26, 2018) was an American trumpeter and jazz artist.
Szabo was born in Budapest but fled with his family to the United States after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 that displaced many.
After his family settled in Los Angeles, he studied trumpet with Tom Scott from age ten. He was a member of Harry James's band in 1970-1971 and toured with Ray Charles worldwide in 1971. He was active as a studio musician from the 1970s into the 2000s, playing for film soundtracks, for television, and for record labels.
As a jazz musician, he toured with Count Basie in 1975 and again in 1983, and also worked with Louie Bellson, the Capp-Pierce Juggernaut, Harry Edison, Teddy Edwards, Gene Harris, Woody Herman, Bill Holman, Chuck Mangione, Lionel Hampton, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Doc Severinsen, Don Menza, Grover Mitchell, Roger Neumann, Buddy Rich, Charlie Shoemake, Sarah Vaughan, and Gerald Wilson.
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With Teddy Edwards
Donald Eugene Cherry was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist. Beginning in the late 1950s, he had a long tenure performing in the bands of saxophonist Ornette Coleman, including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961). Cherry also collaborated separately with musicians including John Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Sun Ra, Ed Blackwell, the New York Contemporary Five, and Albert Ayler.
Neal Paul Hefti was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for The Odd Couple movie and TV series and for the Batman TV series.
Harry "Sweets" Edison was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backing singers, most notably Frank Sinatra.
Wilbur Dorsey "Buck" Clayton was an American jazz trumpeter who was a member of Count Basie's orchestra. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong, first hearing the record "Confessin' That I Love You" as he passed by a shop window.
Lester Willis Young, nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.
Secondo "Conte" Candoli was an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast. He played in the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. He played with Gerry Mulligan, and on Frank Sinatra's TV specials. He also recorded with Supersax, a Charlie Parker tribute band that consisted of a saxophone quintet, the rhythm section, and either a trumpet or trombone.
Theodore Marcus "Teddy" Edwards was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Austin Dean "Bud" Brisbois was a jazz and studio trumpeter. He played jazz, pop, rock, country, Motown, and classical music.
Russell Keith Procope was an American clarinetist and alto saxophonist who was a member of the Duke Ellington orchestra.
Jimmy Owens is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator. He has played with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Hank Crawford, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Herbie Mann, among many others. Since 1969, he has led his own group, Jimmy Owens Plus.
Larance Norman Marable was a jazz drummer from Los Angeles, California.
Herbert Harper was an American jazz trombonist of the West Coast jazz school.
Andy McGhee was a tenor saxophonist and educator.
Roger O'Neal Ingram is a jazz trumpeter, educator, author, and instrument designer. He played trumpet for the orchestras of Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Wynton Marsalis, Ray Charles, and Harry Connick Jr.
Oscar Brashear was an American jazz trumpeter and session musician from Chicago, Illinois.
Joseph Lewis Thomas was an American swing jazz trumpeter, who was born in Webster Groves, Missouri, and died in New York City, New York.
Frank Thurmond Fairfax was the organizer of Philadelphia's Protective Union Local 274 (1935–1971), a charter of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM/AFofM) for black musicians. Fairfax was also a bandleader, musician, music arranger and songwriter, performing in Philadelphia and other northeastern cities.
Lee Katzman was an American jazz trumpeter.
Görjen "Gugge" Hedrenius was a Swedish jazz pianist and bandleader.
Blue Saxophone is an album by saxophonist Teddy Edwards recorded in 1992 and released on the French Verve/Gitanes label.
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