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Charlie Barnet

real name Charles Daly Barnet

saxophonist, bandleader

New York City, United States · 1913-10-26 – 1991-09-04

Charlie Barnet is credited on 611 releases across 201 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2019 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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611

Credits

201

Albums

7

Decades active

32

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American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.
Born October 26, 1913 (New York, New York, United States)
Died September 04, 1991 (San Diego, California, United States)
The height of Barnet's popularity came in 1940-1945, including charting fifteen songs on the U.S. charts, three of them top five songs: "Where Was I?" (1940, #1), "Pompton Turnpike" (#3, 1940), "I Hear a Rhapsody" (#2, 1941).
In 1947, Barnet started to switch from swing music to bebop. Barnet was one of the first bandleaders to integrate his band.

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Credited work

611 releases · 201 albums · active 1951–2019

  • Performance · 1,052
  • Other credits · 115
  • Production · 8

Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Newport Jazz Festival · Sound Enterprises (3) · Royal Albert Hall

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