Dave Blume

Although composer and producer David Blume launched his career being a jazz artist, he later on enjoyed success in pop and film music, and spent over 3 decades accompanying his folksinger wife Carolyn Hester in tour and in record. Delivered in Boston in 1931, Blume began monitoring traditional piano at age four, and produced his recital debut that same season. As a teenager he embraced jazz, understanding how to request big rings and orchestras. He even so majored in journalism at Northeastern College or university, functioning part-time for the United Press International. After graduating in 1952, Blume was drafted to serve in the U.S. Military, offering as an arranger and conductor for the Fort Bragg, NC, bottom orchestra. After getting his release, he resolved in close by Fayetteville, and with cousin Howard Baum founded a bowling alley, B&B Lanes. He also created a jazz combo, the David Blume Trio, that frequently headlined B&B’s pub before settling in Boston, where they released a residency at Fred Taylor’s Paul’s Shopping mall and Jazz Workshop. There Blume started composing in tandem with lyricist Jerry Keller. Although their satirical “IGNORE Method” was created for jazz, sunlight pop group the Cyrkle however scored a high 20 graph smash using their 1966 cover edition. Its achievement also demonstrated Blume’s entrée into Hollywood, and in 1968 he obtained the Don Knotts automobile The Shakiest Weapon in the Western. That same 12 months, he also done the humor What’s SO VERY BAD About Feeling Great? Around that same period, Hester — the Texas-born vocalist/songwriter whose companionship having a then-unknown Bob Dylan was pivotal in securing his 1st recording agreement with Columbia — abruptly and unexpectedly forgotten folk music and only psychedelia, recruiting Blume, guitarist Steve Wolfe, and drummer Skeeter Video camera to create the Carolyn Hester Coalition and liberating a much-maligned LP on Cotillion. The group demonstrated short-lived, but Hester and Blume wed in 1969, carrying on their composing and performing cooperation for over three years. In 1972 the few relocated to LA, where Blume worked well as an employee maker for RCA. He and Hester also helmed their personal impartial label, Outpost, and jointly managed Café Danssa, a folk-dancing golf club in L.A. Blume later on came back to his journalism origins, working in some editorial capacities for the LA Times. At exactly the same time, he continued to be around the RCA payroll, nevertheless, and after embracing the synthesizer, added to Hugo Montenegro’s 1974 cult traditional Hugo in Wonder-Land, a assortment of Stevie Question covers. From 1994, Blume offered as the home pianist for the Stan Kenton tribute installed each year in Monrovia, CA. After retiring in the L.A. Moments in 1999, his wellness declined, and soon after suffering a heart stroke he passed away at his house in Sylmar, CA, on March 16, 2006.