Marky Markowitz


Irvin "Marky" Markowitz was an American jazz trumpeter.
Born the youngest of seven children of Russian-Jewish immigrants who disembarked in Baltimore, and settled on 4 1/2 Street, Southwest, in Washington, D.C., Markowitz learned the trumpet at the local Police Boys' Club. He played early in his career in a number of big bands, including those of Charlie Spivak, Jimmy Dorsey, Boyd Raeburn, and Woody Herman. He played in Buddy Rich's orchestra in 1946–47, then returned to service under Herman in 1947–48. Moving his family from Washington, D.C. to New York in 1958, and eventually settling in Nyack, he worked primarily as a studio musician in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Some live appearances included work with Herman, Gene Krupa, Lee Konitz, Ralph Burns, George Russell, Al Cohn, Paul Desmond, and Bill Evans. Marky was a "first call" trumpeter for many top artists of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, the Young Rascals, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Maynard Ferguson, George Segal, and many others, as well as hundreds of advertising "jingles", TV ads and movie scores. He was a perennial on the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy, and known for a "sweet" tone on the trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a better-than-average vocal impression of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, which was featured on a 1970s TV commercial for Hecker's Flour. In January 1985, just the year before his death at age 62, Marky returned to his hometown of Washington, D.C. to perform with an All-Star band, led by famed composer/arranger Nelson Riddle, at the Inaugural Ball for President Ronald Reagan's 2nd term. He led only one recording session, for Harry Lim's Famous Door label in 1976.

Discography

With David Amram
  • Subway Night
With Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick
  • Walk On By
With Richard Barbary
  • Soul Machine
With Gato Barbieri
  • Caliente
With Louie Bellson
  • Breakthrough!
With Tony Bennett
With Sonny Berman
  • Early Bebop Pioneer
With Brasilia Nueva
  • How Insensitive
With Bob Brookmeyer
  • Portrait of the Artist
With Solomon Burke
With Ralph Burns
  • Where There's Burns, There's Fire
With Paul Butterfield
With Emmett Carls / Lennie Tristano
  • The Lost Session
With Barbara Carroll
  • From The Beginning
With Chris Connor
  • Free Spirits
With King Curtis
  • Jazz Super Hits, Vol. 2 "Philly Dog"
With Paul Desmond
  • From the Hot Afternoon
With Neil Diamond
  • In My Lifetime
With Bo Diddley
  • Big Bad Bo
With Duke Ellington
  • Best Of the War Years
With Bill Evans
  • Symbiosis
  • The Ivory Hunters
With Maynard Ferguson
  • Conquistador
With Astrud Gilberto
With Dizzy Gillespie
  • One Night in Washington
With Grant Green
  • Afro Party
With Bobby Hebb
  • Sunny
With Woody Herman
  • Twelve Shades of Blue
  • "Woodchoppers"
  • The Thundering Herds
  • Blowin' Up a Storm
  • The Fourth Herd
  • First Herd at Carnegie Hall
With Tommy James and the Shondells
  • I Think We're Alone Now
With Tamiko Jones
With Ben E. King
  • Seven Letters
With Lee Konitz
  • You and Lee
With Gene Krupa
  • Gerry Mulligan Arrangements
With The Manhattan Transfer
  • The Best of the Manhattan Transfer
  • Pastiche
With Herbie Mann
  • My Kinda Groove
  • Our Mann Flute
  • The Best of Herbie Mann
With Jackie McLean
  • Monuments
With Carmen McRae
  • Birds of a Feather
With Butch Miles
With Blue Mitchell
  • Many Shades of Blue
With Hugo Montenegro
  • Cha Chas for Dancing
With James Moody
  • Moody with Strings
With Claus Ogerman Orchestra
With Felix Pappalardi
  • Don't Worry, Ma
With Bill Potts
With Tito Puente
  • Herman's Heat and Puente's Beat
With Buddy Rich
  • Both Sides
  • The Rich Rebellion
  • The Driver
With Lalo Schifrin
  • New Fantasy
With George Segal
With Bobby Short
  • No Strings
With Paul Simon
  • One Trick Pony
  • The Essential Paul Simon
With Zoot Sims
  • The Aztec Suite
With Jimmy Smith
  • The Cat
With Howard Tate
  • Howard Tate
With Joe Thomas
  • Masada
With Joe Timer and Charles Mingus
  • Tiny's Blues
With Leslie Uggams
  • My Own Morning
With Frankie Valli
With Loudon Wainwright III
  • T Shirt
With Grover Washington Jr.
  • All the King's Horses
With Kai Winding
  • ''The In Instrumentals''

    Film credits

  • All That Jazz
  • Badge 373
  • Bananas
  • Being There
  • The Boys in the Band
  • The Cotton Club
  • The Fan
  • Foul Play
  • Four Jills in a Jeep
  • Frosty's Winter Wonderland
  • Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Hair
  • The Heartbreak Kid
  • Lenny
  • The Lords of Flatbush
  • Made for Each Other
  • National Lampoon's Movie Madness
  • Pennies From Heaven
  • Pin Up Girl
  • Prime Suspect /aka/ Cry of Innocence
  • Stagecoach
  • ''Take the Money and Run''

    Television

  • ABC World News Tonight theme
  • The Price Is Right theme
  • 20/20 theme