Loren Schoenberg (born July 23, 1958) is a tenor saxophonist, conductor, educator, and jazz historian. He has won two Grammy Awards for

Best Album Notes The Grammy Award – Best Album Notes has been presented since 1964. From 1973 to 1976 (the 15th through 18th Awards), a second award was presented for Best Album Notes – Classical. Those awards are listed under those years below. The award reco ...

. He is the former executive director and currently senior scholar of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. In the late 1970s he played professionally with alumni of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington bands. In 1980 he formed his own big band, which in 1985 became the last Benny Goodman orchestra.

Career

Early years and education

Schoenberg was born on July 23, 1958, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, where he attended Fair Lawn High School.Parisi, Albert J
"Fond Memories of the 'King of Swing'"
''The New York Times'', October 1, 1989. Accessed July 23, 2016. "'Everybody I knew as a kid was into rock bands and heavy-metal stuff, but it just didn't do anything for me,' said Mr. Schoenberg, a 31-year-old Fair Lawn native...Over the years, besides studying music at Fair Lawn High School, Mr. Schoenberg managed to enter what he described as the Goodman 'inner circle,' made up of musicians who had worked with the artist in his heyday."

National Jazz Museum

Schoenberg is Senior Scholar of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Discography

* 1986 ''That's the Way It Goes'' (Aviva) * 1987 ''Time Waits for No One'' ( MusicMasters) * 1988 ''Solid Ground'' (MusicMasters) * 1990 ''Just a-Settin' and a-Rockin'' ' (MusicMasters) * 1990 ''S'posin' '' (MusicMasters) * 1992 ''Manhattan Work Song'' (Jazz Heritage) * 1999 ''Out of This World'' (TCB) * 2006 ''Black Butterfly'' (

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/THPOPS) With others *

Marian McPartland Margaret Marian McPartland Order of the British Empire, OBE ( Turner;Hasson, Claire, . PhD Thesis. Retrieved 12 August 2008. 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English and American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of ...

& Friends – ''85 Candles: Live in New York'', ( Concord) * James Williams – ''Jazz Dialogues Vol. 1–4'' *

Bobby Short Robert Waltrip Short (September 15, 1924 – March 21, 2005) was an American cabaret singer and pianist who interpreted songs by popular composers from the first half of the 20th century such as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold ...

– ''30 Years at the Cafe Carlisle'' *

Benny Carter Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career ...

– ''

Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the ti ...

'' (MusicMasters, 1992) * Benny Carter – ''

Central City Sketches ''Central City Sketches'' is an album by saxophonist/composer Benny Carter recorded in 1987 and released by the MusicMasters label as a double LP.

'' (MusicMasters, 1987) *

Jimmy Heath James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020), nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. He was the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath. Biography Heath w ...

– '' Little Man Big Band'' (Verve, 1992) * American Jazz Orchestra – ''Ellington Masterpieces'' * American Jazz Orchestra – ''Tribute to Jimmie Lunceford'' *

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 ...

– ''Let's Dance'' *

Doc Cheatham Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham (June 13, 1905 – June 2, 1997), was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader. He is also the grandfather of musician Theo Croker. Early life Doc Cheatham was born in Nashvi ...

/ David Murray/Allan Lowe – ''Mental Strain at Dawn''

References

External links

Juilliard Faculty Page
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