Performance
Turk Van Lake
Turk Van Lake is credited on 154 releases across 41 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
154
Pressings credited
41
Albums
8
Decades active
13
In collections
Biography
Vanig Rupen Hovsepian (June 15, 1918 – September 1, 2002), better known as Turk Van Lake, was an American arranger, composer and jazz guitarist. Born in Boston, he studied composition at the Boston Conservatory and went on to play with Charlie Barnet, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, Sarah Vaughan, and with the Benny Goodman Orchestra. In the 1950s he wrote for Metronome magazine. Until his retirement in 1993, he was as an adjunct music professor at the College of Staten Island. Van Lake was the first guitar teacher of Reeves Gabrels, the lead guitarist for David Bowie's backing band, Tin Machine.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
154 releases · 41 albums · active 1954–2024
- Performance · 166
Studios: Webster Hall · Hotel Lincoln, NYC
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Benny Goodman
- Sarah Vaughan
- Terry Gibbs
- Benny Goodman And His Orchestra
- Charlie Barnet
- Various
- Terry Gibbs And His Orchestra
- Herbie Mann
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