Thomas Talbert

Thomas Talbert continues to be among the finest arrangers of days gone by half-century but remains to be quite underrated because of the relatively couple of recordings he has made being a head. He was motivated to be an arranger while hearing the best bands from the golf swing period on the air. He created his piano-playing abilities, and performed in high-school arranged bands to test his arrangements. Over time in the armed forces (1943-1945), Talbert relocated to California and on-and-off during 1946-1949 he led a sophisticated orchestra that battled unsuccessfully to survive; luckily a lot of their uncommon recordings out of this period (and a number of previously unreleased) have recently come out on the SeaBreeze Compact disc. Talbert spent portion of 1947 touring with Anita O’Day, and in 1950 he relocated to NY. Like a freelance article writer, he organized for Claude Thornhill, Tony Pastor, Johnny Smith, Oscar Pettiford, and Don Elliott amongst others. In the middle-’50s, Talbert documented an album offering vocalist Patty McGovern (Wednesday’s Kid) and a vintage of his personal (Bix Body fat Duke); both have already been reissued on Compact disc. From your mid-’60s before early ’70s, Talbert resided in the Midwest, dealing with a 12-piece music group. In 1975 he relocated to LA where he offers created for the L.A. studios and led a part-time orchestra and also a septet, recording many units for SeaBreeze.