Her Geller vient de nous quitter à l'âge de 85 ans

Herb Geller, né le 2 novembre 1928 à Los Angeles (États-Unis) et mort le 19 décembre 20131 à Hambourg (Allemagne), est un saxophoniste,compositeur et arrangeur américain.

Herb Geller (1928-2013), an alto saxophonist whose commanding, butterfly-like style was influenced by Benny Carter and who left his mark on dozens of West Coast jazz recordings in the 1950s under his own name and as a sideman, died on December 21. He was 85.

Herb and his first wife Lorraine, a pianist, were a power jazz couple in Los Angeles in the 1950s. But when Lorraine died suddenly at age 30 in 1958, Herb suffered a terrible emotional blow, alleviated only by world tours and a move to Hamburg, Germany, where he re-married and remained based until his death. For more, see my interview series with Herb in 2010, when I asked him about Lorraine's death...

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