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Thomas Robert Talbert (August 4, 1924 Crystal Bay, Minnesota – July 2, 2005
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pianist, composer, and band leader.


Biography

He was born on August 4, 1924, in Crystal Bay, Minnesota, and grew up listening to big band music on the radio. He got started as a band leader when he was drafted in the Army in 1943, becoming composer for a military band at Fort Ord, California, performing for War Bond drives throughout California. In the late 1940s, he led his own big band on the West Coast, much of his work foreshadowing what became known as
West Coast jazz West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre of cool jazz, which consisted of a calmer style than bebop or hard bop. The music relied rela ...
before moving to New York in the early 1950s after being denied a recording contract in LA In 1956, he recorded two records that would become his best known works, ''Wednesday's Child'' and ''Bix Duke Fats'', gaining him fleeting fame. When rock and roll eclipsed jazz in popularity, he moved to his parents' home in Minnesota in 1960, tried his hand at cattle ranching in Wisconsin, before eventually moving back to Los Angeles and a musical career in 1975. In addition to composing for TV and movie studios, he became involved in music education, and set up a foundation to help talented young musicians, with one of the first recipients (in 1996) being
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. He died July 2, 2005.Obituary: ''Talbert, Tom; 80; Los Angeles,'' Star Tribune (
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), July 10, 2005



Co-workers

Talbert has worked together with many other famous musicians. Some include: Los Angeles in the 40s: *
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Lucky Thompson Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist whose playing combined elements of swing and bebop. Although John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano sa ...
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Dodo Marmarosa Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa (December 12, 1925 – September 17, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Originating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Marmarosa became a professional musician in his mid-teens, and toured with several ...
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Hal McKusick Hal McKusick (June 1, 1924 – April 11, 2012) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist who worked with Boyd Raeburn from 1944 to 1945 and Claude Thornhill from 1948 to 1949. Career McKusick was born in Medford, Massachus ...
* Al Killian * Art Pepper * Steve White *
Claude Williamson Claude Berkeley Williamson (November 18, 1926 – July 16, 2016) was an American jazz pianist. Williamson was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music before moving to jazz, influenced mai ...
New York in the 50s: *
Marian McPartland Margaret Marian McPartland OBE ( Turner;Hasson, Claire"Marian McPartland: Jazz Pianist: An Overview of a Career" PhD Thesis. Retrieved 12 August 2008. 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English–American jazz pianist, composer, and wri ...
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Don Elliott Don Elliott Helfman (October 21, 1926 – July 5, 1984) was an American jazz trumpeter, vibraphonist, vocalist, and mellophone player. Elliott recorded over 60 albums and 5,000 advertising jingles throughout his career. Career Elliott played ...
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Johnny Smith Johnny Henry Smith II (June 25, 1922 – June 11, 2013) was an American cool jazz and mainstream jazz guitarist. He wrote "Walk, Don't Run" in 1954. In 1984, Smith was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Early life During the Great D ...
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Oscar Pettiford Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960) was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom. Biography Pettiford was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United ...
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Herb Geller Herbert Arnold Geller (November 2, 1928 – December 19, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. He was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. Early life His mother, Frances ''(née'' Frances Mildred Fullman, al ...
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Joe Wilder Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Wilder was awarded the Temple University Jazz Master's Hall of Fame Award in 2006. The National Endowment for the Arts honored h ...
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Eddie Bert Edward Joseph Bertolatus (May 16, 1922 – September 27, 2012), also known as Eddie Bert, was an American jazz trombonist. Music career He was born in Yonkers, New York, United States. Bert received a degree and a teaching license from the Manha ...
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Barry Galbraith Joseph Barry Galbraith (December 18, 1919 – January 13, 1983) was an American jazz guitarist. Galbraith moved to New York City from McDonald, PA in the early 1940s and found work playing with Babe Russin, Art Tatum, Red Norvo, Hal McIntyre, an ...
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Aaron Sachs Aaron Sachs (July 4, 1923 – June 5, 2014) was an American jazz saxophone and clarinet player. Career A native of New York City, Sachs began his music career as a young swing protégé of Benny Goodman, and later eased into bebop music, als ...
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Claude Thornhill Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standards "Snowfall" and "I Wish I Had You". Early years Thornhill was the son of J. Chester Thornhill ...


Selected discography

As sideman : With the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra :*
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Downbeat,
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, early 1946, ''Memphis in June'' :* Club Morocco, Hollywood, January 1946 :*
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, early February 1946 :* Hollywood, February 5, 1946 : With
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, ::Note: no details except Tom Talbert, arranger : With Patty McGovern, accompanied by the Tom Talbert Orchestra :* New York, August 1956, ''Wednesday's Child'',
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As leader :*
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, June 25, 1946 :*
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, December 31, 1947 :*
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, August 1949 :*
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, November 1949 :* New York, August 24, 1956, ''Bix, Duke, Fats'',
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:* New York, September 7, 1956 :* New York, September 14, 1956 :* Hollywood, October 3, 4 & 5, 1977, ''Louisiana Suite'' :* Hollywood, August 11 & 12, 1987, ''Things As They Are'', The Tom Talbert Septet :* Rendezvous Ballroom, Newport Beach, California, 30 May 30, 1991 – 3 June 1991, ''Stan Kenton Celebration'', Tom Talbert Jazz Orchestra :* Hollywood, October 1991, ''Duke's Domain'' :* Hollywood, October 10, 1991, ''The Warm Cafe'' :* Hollywood, May 18, 1992 :* Hollywood June 1992 :* Hollywood, June 2, 1992 :*
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, May 18 & 19, 1993 :* New York, July 1, 7 & 8, 1997, ''This Is Living!'' :* Clinton Recording Studios, New York City, December 9, 10 & 11, 1999, ''To a lady: discover jazz with the Tom Talbert Orchestra''


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References

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