Artie Kaplan

Artie Kaplan was born, brought up and officially educated in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a small businessman with a surpassing love for music. Early Artie learned that the wide world was full of interests, different from what he was officially taught; that a man had to educate himself, a process in which he is still madly engaged. Turning to jazz, his youthful heroes were Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz. He traveled round the country playing with Territory Bands, and with every other kind of band he could get into, playing every style of music put before him, always learning, trying everything. He has played in the Music Business for twelve years, assisting other artists, getting ideas but learning to keep them to himself, taking part in hundreds of hit records. He has been writing for ten years, and now he regards composition seriously, which means devoting himself to it whenever he can a free hour or two. And now at the age of 37, he is ready to say things his way. He hopes the public will like it. He venerates music, thinks almost everybody working in it has something to offer the public, and especially admires the musicians working with him. Arnie Lawrence on Alto Sax and Bert Collins on trumpet, he thinks are "marvelous" Vinnie Bell to him is a wonderful guitar player, Bobby Mann is another who will be heard from more, and Chris Dedrick, young, only 24 is someone to watch. Artie is married and has twin girls.

Discography:

"Confessions Of A Male Chauvinist Pig", 1973