Harold Arnold

Harold Arnold was among the most-respected statistics in jazz; got he not selected to function nine to five and increase a family later in his music profession rather than gigging and saving, he would are actually greater than a footnote in the annals of jazz. He was raised in Cleveland, OH’s Central region and visited the now-defunct Central SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a starting place for most jazz greats, including Noble Sissle, Freddy Webster, Tadd Dameron, Andy Anderson, Bull Moose Jackson, Ernie Freeman, Shep Shepherd, Chick McKinney, Willie Smith, and Fat Heard. He began using the piano but turned to saxophone at Central Large. Given birth to Harold Dixon Arnold in 1912, he began playing expertly in 1933 at carnivals and on Mississippi riverboats, which lasted for four years. Then migrated to NY with Columbus, OH, trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison, who he befriended while Edison was gigging in Cleveland. The talented set installed with Lucky Millinder, who directed the Mills Blues Tempo Band, and produced a name for themselves. Arnold also either performed or documented (or both) with Louis Armstrong, Fat Waller, Charlie Shavers, Henry “Crimson” Allen & His NY Orchestra, Billy Kyle, Wilbur DeParis, Carmen Newsome (another Central Large classmate), as well as others. He led many combos and later on conducted youthful Quincy Jones’ Jazz ‘Circular Midnight recording (1958) but oddly, didn’t play around the program. He returned house and found work with the postoffice so that as a protection safeguard (at Harry E. Davis Jr. High). He resolved in Woodmere (a little suburb of Cleveland) and retired in 1977. He managed a account in the Cleveland Federation of Music artists and was an associate from the Townsmen, an area band numerous members that is around for a lot more than 50 years. Arnold last main credit was executing on blues star Robert Lockwood Jr.’s Hangin’ On record in 1980. He dropped his wife, Beatrice, in 1992 and passed on ten years down the road Might 2, 2002, on the Heather Hill Nursing House in Chardon, OH. He was 90 years of age.