Manny Albam

Manny Albam (June 24, 1922 – October 2, 2001) was an American jazz arranger, composer, record producer, saxophonist, and educator.

Early life A native of the Dominican Republic, Albam grew up in New York City. He was attracted to jazz at an early age when heard the music of Bix Beiderbecke.

Career He left school in his teens and played saxophone in a Dixieland band led by Muggsy Spanier. When he was with the Georgie Auld band, he learned about arranging with Budd Johnson. He worked with bandleaders Charlie Barnet and Charlie Spivak The work earned him a Grammy Award nomination in 1959. He was invited by Bernstein to write for the New York Philharmonic, and he began to study classical music with Tibor Serly, eventually writing Quintet for Trombone and Strings.

Compositions Quintet for Tuba and Strings

Discography As leader The Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1956) The Jazz Workshop (RCA Victor, 1956) Manny Albam and the Jazz Greats of Our Time Vol. 1 (Coral, 1957) Steve's Songs (Dot Records, 1958) Jazz Horizons: Jazz New York (Dot Records, 1958) Sophisticated Lady (Coral, 1958) With All My Love (Mercury, 1958) A Gallery of Gershwin (Coral, 1958) The Jazz Greats of Our Time Vol. 2 (Coral, 1958) The Blues Is Everybody's Business (Coral, 1958) Double Exposures (Top Rank, 1960) West Side Story (Vocalion, 1960) I Had The Craziest Dream (RCA Victor, 1961) More Double Exposure (RCA Victor, 1961) Jazz Goes to the Movies (Impulse!, 1962) Brass on Fire (Solid State, 1966) The Soul of the City (Solid State, 1966)

As arranger With Count Basie Dance Session Album #2 (Clef, 1954) Basie (Clef, 1954)

With Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band Latin Kaleidoscope (MPS, 1968)

With Al Cohn Mr. Music (RCA Victor, 1955) The Natural Seven (RCA Victor, 1955) That Old Feeling (RCA Victor, 1955) Four Brass One Tenor (RCA Victor, 1955)

With Jose Feliciano Jose Feliciano Sings (RCA, 1972)

With Curtis Fuller Cabin in the Sky (Impulse!, 1962)

With Freddie Green Mr. Rhythm (RCA Victor, 1955)

With Coleman Hawkins The Hawk in Paris (Vek, 1956) Desafinado (Impulse!, 1962)

With Groove Holmes New Groove (Groove Merchant, 1974)

With O'Donel Levy Breeding of Mind (Groove Merchant, 1972) Dawn of a New Day (Groove Merchant, 1973) Simba (Groove Merchant, 1974)

With Jimmy McGriff The Big Band (Solid State, 1966) A Bag Full of Blues (Solid State, 1967)

With Joe Newman Salute to Satch (RCA Victor, 1956) I Feel Like a Newman (Storyville, 1956)

With Freda Payne After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! (Impulse!, 1964)

With Oscar Peterson With Respect to Nat (Verve, 1965)

With Buddy Rich The Roar of '74 (RCA, 1974)

With Zoot Sims New Beat Bossa Nova (Colpix, 1962)

With Dakota Staton I Want a Country Man (Groove Merchant, 1973)

With Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Clean Head's Back in Town (Bethlehem, 1957)

With Dionne Warwick Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls (Scepter, 1968)