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Dick Cary

real name Richard Durant Cary

Hartford, United States

Dick Cary is credited on 733 releases across 164 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2019 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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733

Credits

164

Albums

7

Decades active

51

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Biography

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American pianist, trumpet and alto horn player, arranger and composer (July 10, 1916, Hartford, Connecticut—April 6, 1994, Sunland, California).
Cary started his career with Joe Marsala in 1942, then played with the Casa Loma Orchestra, Brad Gowans, Muggsy Spanier, Wild Bill Davison, Billy Butterfield, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Dorsey, Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Max Kaminsky, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, and Bobby Hackett among others.
In 1959 he moved to Los Angeles, where he became an active freelance and studio musician. In the 1970s he led his own band, the Tuesday Night Friends.

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733 releases · 164 albums · active 1950–2019

  • Performance · 1,132
  • Other credits · 23
  • Production · 3

Studios: Symphony Hall, Boston · Town Hall, New York · Blue Rock Studio · United Western Recorders

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