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Steve Voce
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Tue Dec 6 01:54:18 PST 2011
This was published in The Independent on November 29.
Steve Voce
Russ Garcia: Musician who worked with Welles and Armstrong
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Russ, you're a genius. If I ever get rich I'm going to put you on
salary." The speaker was Louis Armstrong, the year was 1957 and he and
Ella Fitzgerald were in the middle of recording Garcia's arrangements of
the songs from Porgy and Bess.
"Armstrong was wonderful," said Garcia. "He didn't know anything about
prejudice and he didn't care anything about money, either. He loved
everybody, he loved making music. We'd record during the day and then
he'd go out on Central Avenue and jam all night on trumpet."
Garcia was due to travel from New Zealand earlier this month to appear
at the Modern Sounds Festival in Los Angeles and then at further gigs in
New York, but he died as a result of a fall before he could do so. He
was 95.
During the West Coast jazz era of the 1950s, Garcia wrote for and
recorded under his own name many albums featuring the cream of Los
Angeles jazz musicians. He also made albums with singers including Mel
Tormé, Julie London, Anita O'Day and Sammy Davis, Jr. He undertook many
symphonic commissions and wrote for Stan Kenton's Neophonic Orchestra.
In 1952 he provided the score for Charlie Chaplin's Limelight. Due to
Chaplin being investigated for "subversive tendencies" the film was not
released in the United States until 20 years later, when it won several
Oscars. One of them should have gone to Garcia but, due to a mix up of
names, it went to Chaplin, along with Larry Russel and Ray Rasch.
Born in Oakland, California in 1916, Garcia served in the US Army
infantry, landing on Omaha beach a week after D-Day and fighting in the
Battle of the Bulge. He studied at San Francisco State University and
later with the composers including Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ernst
Krenek.
Garcia began his career arranging and playing trumpet in the bands of
Horace Heidt and Al Donahue. He soon moved into radio as conductor and
composer for the Ronald Reagan-hosted This is America. When the show
ended he worked for two years as NBC's staff arranger and then taught at
Westlake College in Los Angeles, where his students included Bill
Holman, Bob Graettinger and Willie Maiden, all of whom subsequently
wrote for the Stan Kenton band. In 1954 Garcia published The
Professional Arranger-Composer, a book version of his teaching curriculum.
He moved into the film industry in 1946, where his output was prolific;
he was at Universal for 15 years and then moved on to Warner Bros and
Disney. He worked with Orson Welles and Judy Garland and collaborated
with Henry Mancini on the music for The Glenn Miller Story (1953). But
the work he was most lauded for -- and proudest of -- was his remarkable
musical score for George Pal's The Time Machine (1960), although
"Fantastica" (1959), a work for voices, was often cited as his masterpiece.
During the '50s, as well as his orchestral work, he wrote jazz
arrangements for sessions by Buddy DeFranco, Roy Eldridge, Johnny Hodges
and Charlie Barnet, alongside making outstanding jazz recordings under
his own name. He formed his own jazz group, the Wigville Band, that
included Charlie Mariano, Jimmy Giuffre and trumpeters Pete and Conte
Candoli.
In 1952 he had married his second wife Gina. The couple, like their
friend Dizzy Gillespie, followed the Baha'i faith, and in 1966 they sold
their possessions and left Hollywood in a trimaran to sail the Pacific
and spread the word. During their trip, in 1969, the couple met some
musicians in Fiji who asked them to sail to New Zealand and play some
jazz jobs. They did and liked the country so much that they settled there.
Garcia continued to work from New Zealand and spent about half of each
year playing around the world on trips to China, all over Europe, back
to the States and anywhere that his work took him. He was a close friend
of the pianist Oscar Peterson, and when Peterson suffered a bad stroke,
Garcia flew from New Zealand to see him in Toronto.
*Russell Garcia, musician: born Oakland, California 12 April 1916; twice
married (one daughter, and one son deceased); died Kerikeri, New Zealand
19 November 2011.*
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