Chuck Gentry

Although he began being a clarinetist, it had been on very much lower-pitched horns that Chuck Gentry made his bread and butter. Gentry is among the uncommon jazz gentry whose name turns up in credits filled with a armed forces ranking–he was a seargent in the machine that constructed Glenn Miller’s Surroundings Force Music group from 1943 through 1944. In those days Gentry have been a specialist musician for approximately a decade, starting when he was employed for bandleader Ken Baker’s LA outfit. Ahead of that he previously performed clarinet in the institution music group in Sterling, Colorado and acquired held up his musical passions throughout a short profession stab at learning to be a teacher. With the past due ’30s blackboards had been the final this on his brain as he started looking into both baritone and bass sax parts in the reed portion of the Vido Musso ensemble. From right here he visited even bigger rings, Harry James for just two years from 1940, Benny Goodman for approximately a 4th that timeframe beginning in the summertime of 1941 and Jimmy Dorsey until THE GOVERNMENT demanded a big change of method. After the battle he was active with Artie Shaw, Jan Savitt and another brief stint with Goodman. From about 1947 Gentry begun to work increasingly more in the studios, ultimately becoming almost an integral part of the landscape in certain LA recording factories. A lot of the pop materials he made an appearance on is top quality, including Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra edges. He shouldn’t be confused using the guitarist from the same name.