Marky Markowitz
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Irvin "Marky" Markowitz (aka Irwin Markowitz, Irving Markowitz; December 11, 1923 - November 18, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter.
Born the youngest of seven children of Russian-Jewish immigrants who disembarked in Baltimore, and settled on 4 1/2 Street, Southwest, in Washington, D.C., Markowitz learned the trumpet at the local Police Boys' Club. He played early in his career in a number of big bands, including those of Charlie Spivak (1941–42), Jimmy Dorsey, Boyd Raeburn, and Woody Herman (1946). He played in Buddy Rich's orchestra in 1946-47, then returned to service under Herman in 1947-48. Moving his family from Washington, D.C. to New York in 1958, and eventually settling in Nyack, he worked primarily as a studio musician in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Some live appearances included work with Herman, Gene Krupa (1958), Lee Konitz (1959), Ralph Burns, George Russell, Al Cohn (1962), Paul Desmond (1969), and Bill Evans (1974). Marky was a "first call" trumpeter for many top artists of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, the Young Rascals, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Maynard Ferguson, George Segal, and many others, as well as hundreds of advertising "jingles", TV ads and movie scores. He was a perennial on the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy, and known for a "sweet" tone on the trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a better-than-average vocal impression of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, which was featured on a 1970s TV commercial for Hecker's Flour. In January 1985, just the year before his death at age 62, Marky returned to his hometown of Washington, D.C. to perform with an All-Star band, led by famed composer/arranger Nelson Riddle, at the Inaugural Ball for President Ronald Reagan's 2nd term. He led only one recording session, for Harry Lim's Famous Door label in 1976.
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Discography[]
With David Amram
- Subway Night (RCA, 1973)
With Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick
- Walk On By (1964)
With Richard Barbary
- Soul Machine (A&M, 1968)
With Gato Barbieri
- (A&M, 1976)
With Louie Bellson
- (Project 3, 1968)
With Tony Bennett
- (45rpm, CBS, 1968)
- Play it Again, Sam (45rpm, CBS, 1969)
- What The World Needs Now Is Love (45rpm, CBS, 1969)
- (Columbia, 1959)
- (Columbia, 1959)
- Yesterday I Heard the Rain (Columbia, 1968)
- I've Gotta Be Me (Columbia, 1969)
- Summer of '42 (Columbia, 1972)
With Sonny Berman
- (Gramercy, 1948)
With
- How Insensitive (Decca, 1967)
With Bob Brookmeyer
- Portrait of the Artist (Atlantic, 1960)
With Solomon Burke
- (Atlantic, 1964)
With Ralph Burns
- (Warwick, 1961)
With Paul Butterfield
- (Bearsville, 1976)
With / Lennie Tristano
- The Lost Session (Jazz Guild, rec. 1945, rel. 1976)
With Barbara Carroll
- (United Artists, 1977)
With Chris Connor
- Free Spirits (Atlantic, 1962)
With King Curtis
- (Atlantic, 1966)
With Paul Desmond
- From the Hot Afternoon (A&M/CTI, 1969)
With Neil Diamond
- In My Lifetime (Rel. 1996, Columbia)
With Bo Diddley
- Big Bad Bo (Chess, 1974)
With Duke Ellington
- (Rel. 1993)
With Bill Evans
- Symbiosis (MPS, 1974)
- The Ivory Hunters (United Artists, 1959)
With Maynard Ferguson
- Conquistador (Columbia, 1977)
With Astrud Gilberto
- (Image, 1977)
With Dizzy Gillespie
- One Night in Washington (Elektra/Musician, 1955 [1983])
With Grant Green
- Afro Party (Blue Note, 1971)
With Bobby Hebb
- Sunny (Philips, 1966)
With Woody Herman
- (Columbia, 1947)
- "" (Mosaic, 1947)
- (Columbia, 1947)
- (Columbia, 1947)
- (Riverside/Jazzland, 1959)
- (Verve, 1946)
With Tommy James and the Shondells
- I Think We're Alone Now (1967)
With Tamiko Jones
- (A&M, 1968)
With Ben E. King
- Seven Letters (Atco, 1964)
With Lee Konitz
- You and Lee (Verve, 1959)
With Gene Krupa
- (Verve, 1958)
- The Best of the Manhattan Transfer (1981)
- Pastiche (Atlantic, 1978)
With Herbie Mann
- My Kinda Groove (Atlantic, 1964)
- Our Mann Flute (Columbia, 1964)
- (Atlantic, 1966)
With Jackie McLean
- Monuments (RCA, 1979)
With Carmen McRae
- Birds of a Feather (Decca, 1958)
With Butch Miles
- (Famous Door, 1977)
With Blue Mitchell
- Many Shades of Blue (Mainstream, 1974)
With Hugo Montenegro
- (1966)
With James Moody
- Moody with Strings (Argo, 1961)
With Claus Ogerman Orchestra
- (MPS, 1974)
With Felix Pappalardi
- Don't Worry, Ma (A&M, 1979)
With Bill Potts
- Bye Bye Birdie (Colpix, 1963)
- (United Artists, 1959)
- How Insensitive (Decca, 1967)
With Tito Puente
- (Palladium, 1958)
With Buddy Rich
- Both Sides (Mercury, 1976)
- The Rich Rebellion (Mercury, 1960)
- The Driver (EmArcy, 1960)
With Lalo Schifrin
- New Fantasy (Verve, 1964)
With George Segal
- The Yama Yama Man (Philips, 1967)
With Bobby Short
- No Strings (Atlantic, 1962)
With Paul Simon
- One Trick Pony (Warner Bros, 1980)
- The Essential Paul Simon (Sony, Rel. 2010)
With Zoot Sims
- The Aztec Suite (United Artists, 1959)
With Jimmy Smith
- The Cat (Verve, 1964)
With Howard Tate
- Howard Tate (Atlantic, 1971)
With Joe Thomas
- Masada (Groove Merchant, 1975)
With and Charles Mingus
- (Mythic, 1953)
With Leslie Uggams
- (Atlantic, 1967)
With Frankie Valli
- T Shirt (Arista, 1976)
- All the King's Horses (Kudu, 1972)
With Kai Winding
- The In Instrumentals (Verve, 1965)
Film credits[]
- All That Jazz (1979)
- Badge 373 (1973)
- Bananas (1971)
- Being There (1979)
- The Boys in the Band (1970)
- The Cotton Club (1984)
- The Fan (1981)
- Foul Play (1978)
- Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)
- Frosty's Winter Wonderland (1979)
- Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
- Hair (1979)
- The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
- Lenny (1974)
- The Lords of Flatbush (1974)
- Made for Each Other (1971)
- National Lampoon's Movie Madness (1983)
- Pennies From Heaven (1981)
- Pin Up Girl (1944)
- (1982)
- Stagecoach (1966)
- Take the Money and Run (1969)
Television[]
- ABC World News Tonight theme
- The Price Is Right theme (CBS)
- 20/20 theme (ABC)
References[]
- Feather, Leonard. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. 1960. pp 322.
- Yanow, Scott. Trumpet Kings. 2001. pp. 243.
- Yanow, Scott. Irwin "Marky" Markowitz at Allmusic.
- 1923 births
- 1986 deaths
- Musicians from Washington, D.C.
- American jazz trumpeters
- American male trumpeters
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century trumpeters
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians