[Dixielandjazz] Warren Kime RIP

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The Jupiter Jazz Society is saddened by the loss Of the  great trumpet and 
recorder player WARREN KIME (originally from Chicago) of  West Palm Beach. 
He passed away July 21, 2013. He was 85 years old. Warren Kime  has lived a 
full and interesting musical life. He has been a brass player,  singer, big 
band leader, music producer, composer. arranger and now a jazz  recorder 
player. 

Warren studied recorder at the American Conser...vatory of Music  in 
Chicago with George Olson, a premier recorder teacher. He eventually formed  the 
New Cambrian Society Recorder Quartet with Roberta Sweet. The Quartet played  
concerts, performed in colleges throughout the Midwest and in commercials. 
They  recorded an album called \"Ripples\". In 2003 Warren formed the 
Recorder Jazz  Quartet and recorded a CD of his original music called \"Recorder 
Jazz\". He was  backed by veteran jazz players George Mazzeo (drums), Gary 
Mayone (piano) and  Don Coffman (bass). The May issue of the American Recorder 
Magazine described  this new CD as \"original jazz charts with a great 
groove\". 

Warren comes from a musical  family. His father, Charles Kime, put a cornet 
into his hands and started  teaching him how to play solos. Charles Kime 
was a concert band leader who  played cornet with John Phillip Sousa\'s band 
and traveled across Iowa teaching  music to city bands. Warren\'s 
grandfather, Warren Winfield Scott Kime III, was  a composer, concert violinist and 
piano teacher. 
 
During World War II, Warren was a  member of the 392nd Special Service 
Orchestra which took the place of the Glen  Miller Band. He played radio shows 
and toured throughout Europe. A number of  years later, Warren completed a 2 
year tour of duty during the Korean conflict  where he was musical director 
of Special Service Show \"Take Ten\". They  performed over 360 shows for the 
troops there. 
 
After serving in the armed forces,  Warren alternated attending 
Northwestern University on the GI Bill and playing  with name bands around the country. 
Then he joined the CBS staff orchestra in  Chicago under the direction of 
Caesar Petrillo where he performed on television  and radio shows for 6 
years. 
 
As a free-lance trumpeter and  singer, Warren performed in many radio and 
television commercials, record dates  and industrial shows. He was also 
principal trumpet for the Arie Crown Theatre  Orchestra in Chicago and the 
Metropolitan Brass Quintet of Chicago. 
 
He has played on over 75 albums for  various artists and has recorded many 
albums of his own, including a very  successful hit series of big band 
albums for Command Records in New York. They  were the \"Brass Impact\", 
\"Explosive Brass Impact\" and \"Goin\' Someplace\"  for which he created with his 
arranger, Brad Morey, the concept of mixing female  voices with brass and 
reed instruments. Among his many albums, he has recorded a  small jazz group 
album entitled \"Jazz\", a piano and flueghorn album entitled  \"Songs for a 
Sophisticated Lady\" (which received an outstanding review in  Billboard 
Magazine), and a CD entitled \"Concerto for 2\". 
 
Warren has been a  clinician/consultant for Getzen, G. LeBlanc and Holton 
band instrument  companies. 
 
Internationally famous, Warren has  recorded with such outstanding artists 
as Nat King Cole, Jack Teagarten, Stan  Getz, Quincy Jones, Doc Severinsen, 
Skitch Henderson, Frank Sinatra, Tony  Bennett, Sarah Vaughn, Perry Como, 
Dick Haymes, Barry Manilow, Peter Nero,  Vickie Carr, Dianne Carrol, and with 
the big bands of Ralph Marterie, Ray  Anthony, Tex Beneke and many, many 
more. He has performed in concert with jazz  greats such as Dizzie Gillespie, 
Teddy Wilson, Earl \"Father\" Hines, Bob  Crosby, Louis Bellson, Pearl 
Bailey, Mel Torme just to name a  few.