HERB GELLER

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Herb Geller was born in Los Angeles on 2 November 1928. His first professional job was at an L.A. club called Mike Riley's Mad House in 1945. Thereafter he became part of veteran jazz fiddler Joe Venuti's band before finding himself in New York with the Claude Thornhill Band at a time when there was still an active jazz performing and recording scene. Here he met and married jazz pianist Lorraine Walsh.

Then it was back west to be part of the expanding "west coast jazz" school in and around Los Angeles composed of Shorty Rogers, Art Pepper, Chet Baker, and Shelley Manne. Geller also played in an early edition of Maynard Ferguson's Orchestra. He and his wife Lorraine co-led a successful quartet until her tragic early death in 1958. This was a personal watershed and he left for a period of revaluation in Brazil before finally setting sail for
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HERB GELLER Jazz Studio 2 From Hollywood album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Studio 2 From Hollywood
Bop 1954
HERB GELLER Herb Geller Plays album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Herb Geller Plays
Bop 1955
HERB GELLER The Herb Geller Sextette (aka Condoli / Vines 1955) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Herb Geller Sextette (aka Condoli / Vines 1955)
Bop 1955
HERB GELLER The Gellers album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Gellers
Bop 1955
HERB GELLER Fire In The West album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fire In The West
Bop 1957
HERB GELLER That Geller Feller album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
That Geller Feller
Bop 1957
HERB GELLER Stax of Sax album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stax of Sax
Bop 1958
HERB GELLER Play Selections From Julie Styne & Stephen Sondheim's Music For Gypsy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Play Selections From Julie Styne & Stephen Sondheim's Music For Gypsy
Bop 1959
HERB GELLER An American in Hamburg - The View from Here (aka Rhyme And Reason) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
An American in Hamburg - The View from Here (aka Rhyme And Reason)
Bop 1975
HERB GELLER A Jazz Song Book album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Jazz Song Book
Bop 1988
HERB GELLER The Herb Geller Quartet album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Herb Geller Quartet
Bop 1993
HERB GELLER Playing Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Playing Jazz
Bop 1995
HERB GELLER Herb Geller Plays the Al Cohn Songbook album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Herb Geller Plays the Al Cohn Songbook
Bop 1996
HERB GELLER I'll Be Back! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
I'll Be Back!
Bop 1998
HERB GELLER You're Looking At Me album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
You're Looking At Me
Bop 1998
HERB GELLER Hollywood Portraits album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hollywood Portraits
Bop 2000
HERB GELLER To Benny & Johnny album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
To Benny & Johnny
Bop 2002
HERB GELLER Plays Arthur Schwartz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Plays Arthur Schwartz
Bop 2005
HERB GELLER At The Movies album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
At The Movies
Bop 2007

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HERB GELLER Hot House album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hot House
Bop 1985
HERB GELLER Fungi Mama album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fungi Mama
Bop 1986
HERB GELLER Birdland Stomp album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Birdland Stomp
Bop 1987
HERB GELLER Halle Opera House 2002 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Halle Opera House 2002
Bop 2011
HERB GELLER An Evening With Herb Geller & The Roberto Magris Trio album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
An Evening With Herb Geller & The Roberto Magris Trio
Bop 2014

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HERB GELLER All Right With Me album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
All Right With Me
Bop 2015

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