Ray Linn

A versatile trumpeter, Ray Linn began being a modernist and finished up being a revivalist. Linn started his professional profession using the orchestras of Tommy Dorsey (1938-1941) and Woody Herman (1941-1942); he’d rejoin Herman on three events (1945, 1947, and 1955-1959). Linn also done and off with Jimmy Dorsey (1942-1945), Benny Goodman (1943 and 1947), Artie Shaw (1944-1946), and Boyd Raeburn (1946). While with Raeburn, his solos had been quite advanced for the time. Linn became a studio room musician after shifting to LA in 1945, but got the opportunity to utilize Bob Crosby (1950-1951) and several of the very best West Coastline jazz players in the 1950s furthermore to Woody Herman. Through the 1960s on, he mainly worked in tv. Although his periods being a head in 1946 (which led to eight tracks) got such game titles as “The Mad Monk” and “Blop Blah,” Ray Linn’s afterwards albums for Pattern (1978) and Finding (1980) had been Dixieland-oriented.