NOTE:
I just got the news that bassist
Arnold Fishkin (sometimes spelled Fishkind) passed away in Californina on September
8. He was born in Bayonne, NJ, on July 20, 1919 and worked with the bands
of Bunny Berigan, Jack Teagarden, Les Brown, Jerry Wald and Charlie Barnet
before becoming one of the most in-demand bassist in New York. He is on
several classic recordings from the late 1940s and early 1950s with Lennie
Tristano and Lee Konitz. He was also in the Benny Goodman septet of 1948. In
the 1950s he played in the staff
orchestras at NBC and CBS, still active
as a jazz musician on the side, and later on was a free lance bassist. He
had been living in southern California for more than 40 years.
~Niels Lyngberg
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