ANDY JAFFE

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Jaffe, Andy (Andrew William), jazz composer and educator; b. Washington D.C., 16 November 1951. He grew up in D.C., Monroe, N.Y., and Amherst, MA. His father, Howard Jaffe (1919-2002), later to become a professional mineralogist, played piano and wrote musicals with Oscar Brand while at Brooklyn College. His great uncle, Archie Gottler (1896-1959), was a successful Tin Pan Alley composer whose music was performed on Broadway by the likes of Sophie Tucker. His greatest hit was "America, I Love You," originally composed during WWI (ca. 1915), then revived in WWII by the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, as arranged by Gil Evans. His brother, Stephen (b. 1954), teaches at Duke University and is a well-known composer of new music. His sister, Marina, studied oboe at Oberlin College and currently works teaching music and as a freelance performer.

Andy Jaffe began playing the piano at age 8, and then clarinet
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ANDY JAFFE Manhattan Projections album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Manhattan Projections
Hard Bop 1985
ANDY JAFFE Double Helix: Music by Ellington album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Double Helix: Music by Ellington
Post Bop 1998
ANDY JAFFE The Bill Lowe-Andy Jaffe Repertory Big Band, Slovak Radio Orchestra ‎: Imperfect Storm album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Bill Lowe-Andy Jaffe Repertory Big Band, Slovak Radio Orchestra ‎: Imperfect Storm
Third Stream 2004
ANDY JAFFE Andy Jaffe Nonet + 4 : Arc album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Andy Jaffe Nonet + 4 : Arc
Progressive Big Band 2016
ANDY JAFFE Andy Jaffe Nonet + 3 ‎: Chorinhoso album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Andy Jaffe Nonet + 3 ‎: Chorinhoso
Latin Jazz 2020

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