Manny Albam
Manny Albam
Latest Release
- Metropolitan Swing: The Arrangements of Manny Albam
- December 2025
- • 10 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Afterhoughts | ||
| 2 | Blues for Easy, Pt 2 | ||
| 3 | Blues for Easy, Pt 1 | ||
| 4 | Blues for Neither Coast | ||
| 5 | Am I Blue |
Albums
Nov 2009 • 59 songs
Mar 2008 • 18 songs
Jan 1958 • 7 songs
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About
Biography
During a career that spanned seven decades, composer and arranger Manny Albam collaborated with a who's who of jazz greats including Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and Stan Getz. He also developed successive generations of new talent as co-founder and musical director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop. Albam was born June 24, 1922. His parents were en route from their native Russia to their new home in New York City, and his mother went into labor while their ship was outside of the Dominican Republic port of Samana. At the age of seven Albam discovered jazz after hearing a Bi...