Frank Langone

The jazz career of the reed player began in the middle-’30s, but ahead of that he previously already performed internationally. Frank Langone was raised in Philadelphia, where he started playing music at age 12 and analyzed with Abe Beloff. In the first ’20s he was among the masses of music artists whose groceries had been paid for from the silent film market. Beloff performed in Philadelphia pit rings for live theatre as well, resulting in an engagement with Al Donahue’s Orchestra. This huge clothing got itself booked on sea liners, after that would march from the dispatch and undertake gigs wherever they been. Thus, Langone had been a veteran of engagements in Paris and Rome by enough time he became assimilated into a group of big rings and dance rings in the elevation of the golf swing period. While generally not really featured like a celebrity soloist, Langone kept down reed section seats in the ensembles of market leaders such as for example multi-instrumentalist Isham Jones, trumpeters Bunny Berigan and Bobby Hackett, violinist and vocalist Jan Savitt, and fellow reed participant Jimmy Dorsey, amongst others. The best-known recordings with Langone had been studio projects, nevertheless, not working rings, offering vocalist and bandleader Bob Crosby and trombonist Tommy Dorsey. In the ’70s, when Langone were able to rate a brief access in John Chilton’s Who’s Who of Jazz, the reedman was still energetic with Jan Garber, a bandleader who also performed violin. Langone appears to have retired to the life span of the instructor in Fresno, CA, but may possess passed away without the official see. A discredited theory that occasionally still circulates is usually that Langone was the true surname for as well as the same person as Don “Slats” Very long, a clarinetist from Wichita who performed in the same period.