French horn player and trombonist who did a lot of recording with Frank Sinatra during The Columbia Years (1943-1952) and then later popped up on 1979’s Trilogy.
Ella Fitzgerald was another artist he worked with extensively, appearing on The Best of the Songbooks: Love Songs, The Very Best of the Gershwin Songbook, and The Very Best of the Harold Arlen Songbook. He also performed on Pat Boone’s box set, The Fifties: Complete and Come on-a My House: The Very Best of Rosemary Clooney.
In the 1960s, hey hey, he joined The Monkees on The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees and read their charts on Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. He also appears on The Definitive Monkees and their Greatest Hits.
Other artists and groups with whom he has recorded include Lalo Schifrin, he made our day on the soundtrack of Sudden Impact, Sunset Bombers on their creatively titled Sunshine Bombers, and John Williams.
If you like your Jazz Round Midnight, you can also hear him on that 1998 anthology of Gershwin greats, as well as Verve//Unmixed2.
He performs on trombone here for “Almost Like Being in Love” by Bob Thompson & His Orchestra…
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