Fred Karlin

Prolific film and television composer Fred Karlin was born in Chicago in 1936. He began playing trumpet while in his teens and later studied jazz composition with William Russo, graduating cum laude from Amherst College in 1956 on the strength of his honors thesis, "String Quartet No. 2." In 1958 Karlin relocated to New York City, working as a composer and arranger for a series of jazz acts, most notably Benny Goodman, for whom he arranged the Benny Goodman Plays "The Sound of Music" LP; he also wrote for film documentaries and television commercial jingles, and from 1960 to 1...