Jack Montrose

Tenor saxophonist and composer Jack port Montrose was a leading exponent from the Western Coast jazz motion. His terse phrasing and easy tone stay the quintessence of California awesome. Born Dec 30, 1928, in Detroit, Montrose spent the first many years of the Depressive disorder in Chicago until poverty pressured his family members to relocate to Chattanooga, TN. Upon teaching himself saxophone he became a member of an area dance music group at age 14, and after many trips of the South he relocated to Southern California, where in 1947 he became a member of the John Kirby Sextet, starting an extended and fertile cooperation with Kirby’s baritone saxophonist, Bob Gordon. Montrose continuing dealing with Kirby while their studies at Los Angeles Condition College, and following the bandleader’s 1952 loss of life he backed Shorty Rogers and Artwork Pepper. Upon graduating in 1953, Montrose gained notoriety like a program musician and arranger, adding to times headlined by Chet Baker, Clifford Dark brown, and Dave Pell. After coming back from a six-month tour with Stan Kenton in middle-1954, Montrose reunited with Gordon for the Pacific Jazz LP Meet up with Mr. Gordon. In 1955, the saxophonists convened for an acclaimed Atlantic day, Arranged/Played/Made up by Jack port Montrose, accompanied by a Pacific Jazz program headlined from the previous. But by enough time of both albums’ industrial launch, Gordon was lifeless, killed inside a fatal car crash on August 28, 1955, at age just 27. Montrose resurfaced in 1957 with a set of RCA produces, Blues and Vanilla as well as the Horn’s Total. He also supported Mel Tormé on some LPs documented with arranger Marty Paich, and briefly collaborated with trumpeter Jack port Millman. But with the middle-’50s Montrose was shedding a struggle with heroin obsession, getting a nagging popularity for missing documenting periods and live gigs. By enough time he conquered substance abuse once and for all in 1961, the Western world Coastline vogue was over and he was relegated to playing regional strip joint parts before relocating to NEVADA, where he made an appearance in casino present rings for the better area of the 10 years. After years from the limelight, Montrose finally came back to the studio room in 1977 for drummer Frank Butler’s Xanadu label return effort, Stepper. Just in 1986 do he acquire his own return bet, collaborating with pianist Pete Jolly for the Slingshot discharge Better Later Than Never. Following the Holt imprint released Montrose’s Let’s GET IT DONE four years afterwards, the saxophonist became a fixture from the Western world Coastline jazz revival circuit, time for LA to donate to efforts like the American Jazz Institute’s 2003 Clifford Dark brown Project, which utilized lots of the same agreements Montrose composed for Dark brown a half-century previously. The reissue increase also made many of Montrose’s classic LPs designed for a new era of jazz aficionados, and he finally started to enjoy the acknowledgement long credited him when he passed away in NEVADA on Feb 7, 2006.