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Lew Soloff was born in 1944 and grew up in Lakewood, New Jersey. He took
up the trumpet when he was ten and was fortunate to have been exposed to
recordings of Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge from an early age. By the
time he was 15, he knew he wanted to be a professional musician. As a teenag-er,
he worked in the Catskills in the summer, and graduated to the New York
scene during the ’60s playing club dates and concerts at Radio City Music Hall.
Mr. Soloff performed with such Latin jazz players as Machito and Tito Puente
and joined up with Maynard Ferguson’s Band. In 1955, he scored a slot with
the Gil Evans Big Band – a gig he today considers to be the greatest of his
life. In the sixties, he worked with the group Blood, Sweat and Tears and
contributed those sizzling trumpet lines in the band’s 1969 hit “Spinning Wheel”.
These days, Lew Soloff is busy with a number of projects including The Manhattan Jazz Quintet, Pocket
Brass Band and Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. He recently finished recording a new album with his regular
working ensemble The Food Group, comprised of Lou Marini, Joe Beck, Mark Egan and Danny Gotleib.
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