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Chef d'ensemble à vent, musicien de jazz, clarinettiste, chef d'orchestre, saxophoniste |
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Shep Fields (né le à Brooklyn, de son vrai nom Saul Feldman, mort le )[1] est un musicien américain, chef du big band Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm dans les années 1930[2]. Il était également saxophoniste et clarinettiste.
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Vous pouvez écouter l'orchestre de Shep Fields en interprétant «In the Merry Month of May» avec l'accordéoniste John Serry Sr. en 1938 Ici(en) |
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Vous pouvez entendre des enregistrements audio de Shep Fields et de son orchestre de 1937 à 1944 Ici(en) |
« Halmy was born in Budapest, Hungary, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 2. He made his mark as a trumpet player with East Coast outfits including Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra, a society band that played on The Woodbury Hour With Bob Hope and in The Big Broadcast of 1938, a film starring Hope, W.C. Fields and Dorothy Lamour. »
« When trumpet star and jazz arranger Lou Halmy looks back on the Great Depression of the 1930s, it doesn't seem depressing at all. 'I was lucky,' the 91-year-old Eugene musician says. 'I was playing with a band and working all the time. We had a steady job, which was the rarest thing in music.' While many people were standing in bread lines and living in shanty camps, Halmy was inside New York's posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, cheering people up by playing his horn in one of the most popular dance bands of the era: Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm ... »
« Sid Caesar ... He went on to play in a series of big bands, including those of Claude Thornhill, Charlie Spivak, Shep Fields, Art Mooney and Benny Goodman. ... »
« To justify the movie's title — and the inclusion in the cast of such diverse talents as Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm, ... »