Died On This Date (January 8, 2009) Irving Bush / Big Band Trumpeter
themusicsover Irving Bush
April 7, 1930 – January 8, 2009
Irving Bush was a respected big band trumpeter who, over the course of his lengthy career played with the likes of Nelson Riddle, Harry James, Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, to name a few. During those early days, he worked as part of the studio orchestras at Warner Bros., MGM, 20th Century Fox and others. During the early ’60s, he successfully auditioned for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra where he stayed as either a performer or in management over the next three decades. Irving Bush was 78 when he died of effects from myeloma on January 8, 2009.
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