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American jazz musician (1921–2016
Abraham Samuel Richman (April 2, 1921 – March 22, 2016), better known as Boomie Richman , was an American jazz tenor saxophone player who played with
Tommy Dorsey .
[1] He also played clarinet, bass clarinet, piccolo, and flute.
Richman was born in
Brockton, Massachusetts on April 2, 1921.
[2] Before joining the Dorsey band, he worked with
George Paxton and
Muggsy Spanier .
[2] From 1945 to 1951, he recorded with Dorsey and was a soloist in the band.
[2] During the 1950s he worked intermittently with the
Benny Goodman Orchestra and with
Red Allen ,
Ruby Braff ,
Al Cohn ,
Cootie Williams , and the
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra .
[2] He also worked as a
studio musician .
[1]
Richman recorded with
Buddy Holly on October 21, 1958, playing the sax solo on "
True Love Ways ".
[3] He also played with
Judy Garland in her comeback performance at
Carnegie Hall . On television, he appeared on The Jimmy Dean Show , The Perry Como Show , The Dick Cavett Show , The Patti Page Show , The Pat Boone Show , and The Andy Williams Show .
Richman died in
Boynton Beach, Florida on March 22, 2016, at the age of 94.
[4]
Discography
As sideman
Steve Allen , Steve Allen Plays Neal Hefti (Coral, 1958)
Teresa Brewer , Teresa Brewer and the Dixieland Band (Coral, 1959)
Bobby Byrne , The Jazzbone's Connected to the Trombone (Grand Award, 1959)
Al Cohn ,
The Sax Section (Epic, 1956)
Cab Calloway , Hi De Hi De Ho (RCA Victor, 1960)
Perry Como , We Get Letters (RCA Victor, 1957)
Jackie Cooper , The Movies Swing! (Dot, 1958)
Rusty Dedrick , A Jazz Journey (Monmouth, 1965)
Marty Gold , Suddenly It's Springtime (RCA Victor, 1964)
Benny Goodman , Fletcher Henderson Arrangements (Columbia, 1953)
Benny Goodman, B.G. in Hi-Fi (Capitol, 1955)
Neal Hefti , Singing Instrumentals (Epic, 1954)
Hugo & Luigi , The Cascading Voices of the Hugo & Luigi Chorus (RCA Victor, 1963)
Henry Jerome , Brazen Brass Features...Saxes (Decca, 1961)
Enoch Light , The Big Band Sound of the Thirties (Project 3, 1970)
George Paxton , The Uncollected George Paxton and His Orchestra 1944–1945 (Hindsight, 1982)
Joe Reisman , Party Night at Joe's (RCA Victor, 1958)\
Richard Maltby , Many Sided Maltby (Sesac, 1958)
Tommy Reynolds , Jazz for Happy Feet (King, 1956)
Edgar Sampson , Swing Softly Sweet Sampson (Coral, 1957)
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra , Directions in Music (Bluebird, 1988)
Hymie Shertzer , All the King's Saxes (Disneyland, 1958)
Phil Silvers ,
Phil Silvers and Swinging Brass (Columbia, 1957)
Cootie Williams ,
Cootie Williams in Hi-Fi (RCA Victor, 1958)
Cootie Williams,
Porgy & Bess Revisited (Warner Bros., 1959)
References
International National Artists