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George Robert Orendorff was born on March 18, 1906 in Atlanta, Georgia but when he was nine years old his family moved to Chicago, Illinois. His early musical years were spent learning the guitar before picking up cornet and spending his high school days with fellow students Eddie South, Wallace Bishop and Lionel Hampton. He began his career at 17, playing in Chicago dance bands, one of them led by Detroit Shannon.
Following a 1925 tour with the Helen Dewey Show, the revue dumped him in Los Angeles, California where he played with Paul Howard from 1925 to 1930. He then played with Les Hite for most of the 1930s and recorded with Louis Armstrong from 1930 to 1931. In the 1940s he accompanied Ceele Burke, and after his WWII army service, he became a post officer and an official in the American Federation of Musicians. George also recorded on the West Coast Jazz and Rhythm and Blues scene and continued to play with Les Hite.
Later in his career he worked with Maxwell Davis, Ike Lloyd, and T-Bone Walker among others. Trumpeter George Orendorff transitioned on June 28, 1984 in Los Angeles.
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Jiver Hutchinson was born Leslie George Hutchinson on March 16, 1906 in Kingston, Jamaica. He played in Bertie King’s band in Jamaica in the 1930s, then moved to England, where he played with Happy Blake’s Cuba Club Band. By 1936 he was a part of Leslie Thompson’s Emperors of Jazz and two years later he was performing with Ken “Snakehips” Johnson, before joining Geraldo’s band in 1939.
He led his own ensemble from 1944 to 1950, featuring many of the musicians from Thompson’s band. His ensemble toured throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, and in 1945 played concerts in India.
Recording with his ensemble in 1947, he returned to play with Geraldo after the group’s dissolution, and recorded with Mary Lou Williams in 1952. During the Fifties he worked in television on the Benny Hill Show and Make Mine Music.
Trumpeter and bandleader Jiver Hutchinson was killed in a car crash in Weeting, England while on tour with his band on November 22, 1959.
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Marty Sheller was born March 15, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey. Sheller initially studied percussion, but switched to trumpet as a teenager. He played with Hugo Dickens in Harlem, and arranged for Sabu Martinez, before working with Afro-Latin percussionists such as Louie Ramirez and Frankie Malabe.
In 1962 he became a trumpeter in Mongo Santamaria’s band, and worked with Santamaria for more than forty years as a composer and arranger. He also had an extensive association with Fania Records. As their house arranger Marty worked with Joe Bataan, Ruben Blades, Willie Colon, Larry Harlow, Hector Lavoe, and Ismael Miranda.
Outside of Fania, he arranged for musicians, not limited to, George Benson, David Byrne, Jon Faddis, Giovanni Hidalgo, T.S. Monk, Idris Muhammad, Manny Oquendo, Dave Pike, Tito Puente, Shirley Scott, Woody Shaw, Lew Soloff, and Steve Turre.
In the 2000s, he led his own ensemble, which included the sidemen Chris Rogers, Joe Magnarelli, Sam Burtis, Bobby Porcelli, Bob Franceschini, Oscar Hernández, Ruben Rodriquez, Vince Cherico, and Steve Berrios.
Trumpeter and arranger Marty Sheller, who plays primarily in latin jazz idioms, continues to pursue his musical endeavors.
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Three Wishes
While hanging out with the Baroness, she asked Benny Carter what his three wishes would be if by some chance he was granted them. His reply is as follows:
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“Three million dollars, tax free.”
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“Two millions dollars, tax free.”
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“One million dollars, tax free.”
“But seriously, call me at my hotel when I have had time to think about it, and I will give you the real ones.”
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*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats ~ Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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Jean-Claude Naude was born on March 7, 1933 in Amiens, France. He attended the Amiens conservatory and played early in his career as a trumpeter for Raymond Fonsèque’s orchestra and with Georges Arvanitas.
By 1955 Naude was working with Maxim Saury, an association that would last a decade. He also played piano with Raymond Fonsèque in a trio with trombonist Luis Fuentes.
In the second half of the 1960s Jean~Claude led his own big bands and played with Gerard Badini, Jacky Samson, and Andre Paquinet. The 1970s saw him playing with Claude Bolling and in the 1980s with Bob Quibel.
Pianist and trumpeter Jean~Claude Naude transitioned on January 9, 2008.
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