Jerry "Buck" Jerome (June 19, 1912 – November 17, 2001) was an American jazz and big band musician, a tenor saxophonist.Los Angeles Time

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Glenn Miller Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the United States Army Air Forces ...

Red Norvo Red Norvo (born Kenneth Norville; March 31, 1908 – April 6, 1999) was an American musician, one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone, marimba, and vibraphone as jazz instruments. His recor ...

Benny Goodman Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". His orchestra did well commercially. From 1936 until the mid-1940s, Goodman led one of the most popular swing bi ...

and

Artie Shaw Artie Shaw (born Arthur Jacob Arshawsky; May 23, 1910 – December 30, 2004) was an American clarinetist, composer, bandleader, actor and author of both fiction and non-fiction. Widely regarded as "one of jazz's finest clarinetists", Shaw led ...

Early life

Jerome was born in

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, and began playing the saxophone in high school in

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Career

Jerome was part of a national tour in 1936 with bandleader Harry Reser and his Clicquot Club Eskimos. He joined

's original orchestra in 1937 and was a member until it broke up in 1938. He played on the Glenn Miller recording " Doin' the Jive" in which he soloed. He then joined the

band. He joined the

orchestra in 1938. When Goodman broke up his band in 1940, he joined the

orchestra. While with Shaw he appeared in the 1940 film, ''

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'', starring

Fred Astaire Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "g ...

and

Burgess Meredith Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theater, film, and television. Active for more than six decades, Meredith has been called "a virtuosic actor" ...

. By the end of the 1940s, Jerome became involved in broadcasting, variously working as a conductor, composer, arranger and musical director. He also composed the "

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Personal life and death

Jerome died in November 2001 at the age of 89.

Discography

*''The Jerry Jerome Trio'' (Vantage, 1944) with

Teddy Wilson Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist. Described by critic Scott Yanow as "the definitive Swing music, swing pianist", Wilson's piano style was gentle, elegant, and virtuosic. His style was high ...

and

Cozy Cole William Randolph "Cozy" Cole (October 17, 1909 – January 9, 1981) was an American jazz drummer who worked with Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong among others and led his own groups. Life and career William Randolph Cole was born in East Ora ...

*''Something Old, Something New'' ( Arbors, 1939–1996) *''Something Borrowed, Something Blue'' (Arbors, 1939–2001) *''Boca Raton Florida May 19, 1998'' (Jazz Nite, 1998)

References

External links

Jazzhouse obituary
1912 births 2001 deaths Glenn Miller Orchestra members American jazz saxophonists 20th-century American saxophonists {{US-jazz-saxophonist-stub