Manny Albam
About the artist
Manny Albam (1922 - 2001) was a jazz arranger, in his early career he also played baritone saxophone. He was born in the Dominican Republic, but grew up in New York City. His parents were Russian immigrants and he was born in the Dominican Republic as they were in route to the US. He became interested in jazz on hearing Bix Beiderbecke and at sixteen dropped out of school to play for Muggsy Spanier. He began doing musical arrangement with Georgie Auld
Top songs
- Paris Blues
- Afterthoughts
- All Too Soon
- Anything Goes
- Headstrong
- Ferris Wheel
- Black Bottom
- The Turning Point
- My Sweetie Went Away
- Bad, Bad Simba
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- Fresh Flute
- Urbanity
- America / I Feel Pretty / One Hand, One Heart
- South Dakota
- Swingin' On A Star
- After You've Gone
- April in Paris - 1996 Remastered
- Thruway
- The Changing Scene
- Royal Garden Blues
- Something's Coming
- Intermezzo
- Lemon Twist
- THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC
- Blues Company
- Diga Diga Doo
- Charmaine
- On A Mist
- The Nether Regions
- Night Crawlers
- Dancers On Drums
- Tonight
- My Heart Stood Still
- In A Mist
- They All Laughed
- Chants Of The Witch Doctors
- Jive At Five
- El Barrio Latino
- Carioca
- Tin Roof Blues
- Strike Up The Band
- Bristling
- My Old Flame
- I Get A Kick Out Of You
- Dot's Right
- Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
- Blues From Neither Coast
- Interwoven
- Exodus
- Poor Dr. Millmoss
- Latined Fracture
- Cymbalisms
- La Dolce Vita
- Minor Matters
- Nigerian Knights
- Jada
- Skinning The Valves
- El Cid
- Green Leaves of Summer
- Majority of One
- Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
- See Here, Miss Bromley
- Slowly
- The Octopus
- There She Goes
- Cool
- Hebe, The Cups Please!
- It's De-Lovely
- Born On Arrival
- It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane
- Thunder Burt
- Tired Faces Going Places
- Second Movement: Bristling
- Lullaby Of Broadway
- A View From The Inside
- Museum Pieces
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- High noon
- Just One Of Those Things
- You Stepped Out of a Dream
- Sixth Movement: The Octopus
- First Movement: Dancers on Drums
- Fifth Movement: Cymbalisms
- I Guess I Never Had A Chance
- The Game Of The Year
- Riverview
- Ida Bridges Falling Down
- The Flat Cap
- Guns of Navarone
- Zanzy
- My Funny Valentine
- A View From The Outside
- Third Movement: Chant of the Witch Doctor
- The Blues Is Everybody's Business Prt-1
- Monday
- Dream
- The Children's Corner
- Close Cover Before Striking
- The Blues Is Everybody's Business Prt-2
- Minir Matters
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