Uan Rasey

The history of jazz and popular music possess their share of star trumpet players: Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Maynard Ferguson Harry Wayne, Wynton Marsalis, Bunny Berigan, Al Hirt, Doc Severinsen, and Wingy Manone one thinks of. But the it?s likely that excellent that, before many of these renowned numbers, the common music listener may have noticed the music of Uan Rasey. A trumpet virtuoso to equivalent all competitors, Rasey used everyone from Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra towards the Monkees, and on film ratings from An American in Paris to Chinatown. His trumpet could be noticed throughout Jerry Goldsmith’s rating for the second option film, among the great, traditional uses from the single instrument in the annals of movie theater. Rasey spent the years 1949 through 1974 doing work for MGM Studios, and performed business lead trumpet on films as an American in Paris and Western Side Story. Like a documenting artist, he used famous brands Sinatra, Crosby, Nat “Ruler” Cole, Mel Tormé, Anita O’Day, Doris Day time, the Andrews Sisters, Benny Carter, Ray Anthony, Frankie Laine, Louis Prima, Judy Garland, Ella Mae Morse, as well as the Monkees. After his pension from MGM, he continuing to take part in commercial recordings.