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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1922
- Active to
- 2001
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Discography
- The Jazz Workshop1956
- La Bottega Del Jazz1957
- West Side Story1960
- Jazz Goes to the Movies1962
- Brass On Fire1966
- And the Jazz Greats of Our Time, Vol. 11974
- Sketches From the Book of Life1991
- Manny Albam, Rob McConnell and the SDR Big Band Featuring Herb Geller1993
- Manny Albam's Jazz Greats of Our Time: Complete Recordings2004
- Seven Classic Albums2015
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Manny Albam (1922 - 2001) was a jazz arranger, in his early career he also played baritone saxophone. He was born in the Dominican Republic, but grew up in New York City. His parents were Russian immigrants and he was born in the Dominican Republic as they were in route to the US. He became interested in jazz on hearing Bix Beiderbecke and at sixteen dropped out of school to play for Muggsy Spanier. He began doing musical arrangement with Georgie Auld <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Manny+Al
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominican Republic
- Place of birth
- Samaná
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Record label
- Columbia Records
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- date of birth
- 1922-06-24
- date of death
- 2001-10-02
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