Robert Alexander

Coming straight from the Tommy Dorsey design of straight-on swinging and pretty melodic lines, Robert Alexander became among the music industry’s best studio players, documenting frequently with performing stars such as for example Perry Como and Frank Sinatra. He hailed from New Britain, and started playing the horn in high-school music group. Alexander became a member of the Fenton Brothers Orchestra in 1940 and started collaborating using the innovative Joe Marsala quickly thereafter, the couple of collaborators picking right up supplemental income at dance music group jobs. Alexander became a member of the Coast Safeguard until 1945, after that finished up playing in the music group of Jimmy Dorsey, his initial idol’s sibling. The freelance existence began immediately after about 50 % a year on the highway with Eddy Duchin; maybe it had been the shenanigans of the celebrity that prompted Alexander into contemplating a big change in way of life. While mostly energetic like a sideman, Alexander do cut the record Intensifying Jazz for the Grand Award label, a name that might appear out of range for such a normal player but in fact makes sense through the perspective from the man’s changing profession. Like all great studio room players, Alexander discovered ways to improvement through the maze of music that was devote entrance of him. His solutions, like those of the various other players around him, produced the music vividly light the area — on a few of these periods. Much is based for the arranger, and perhaps the artwork was only to offer window dressing, just as requested. At the very least, Alexander could under no circumstances end up being accused of basically playing it secure in his studio room career. He turns up on some uncommon products, from a Jan Akkerman intensifying rock solo work to traditional recordings by folk group the Weavers. The most severe pun within an record title which Alexander plays can be Eartha Quake by Eartha Kitt.