Harry Lookofsky

Harry Lookofsky

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In the collection

9 records
Child Is Father To The Man Blood, Sweat And Tears, 1968 Deodato 2 Deodato, 1973 Giant Box Don Sebesky, 1973 Stanley Clarke Stanley Clarke, 1974 Disco Baby Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony, 1975 Feels So Good Grover Washington, Jr., 1975 Black Widow Lalo Schifrin, 1976 Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorius, 1976 Explosion Paquito D’Rivera, 1986

Played with

Harold Kohon 7 records together Emanuel Green 7 records together Charles McCracken 6 records together David Nadien 6 records together Paul Gershman 6 records together Emanuel Vardi 5 records together Alfred Brown 5 records together Gene Orloff 5 records together Max Ellen 5 records together Randy Brecker 4 records together Harry Cykman 4 records together Hubert Laws 4 records together

About

American jazz and pop violinist, bandleader and producer
Born October 1, 1913 in Paducah, Kentucky, died June 8, 1998 in York, Pennsylvania

Father of keyboardist-songwriter Michael Lookofsky (alias Michael Brown).
Lookofsky co-produced the pop hit, “Walk Away Renée”, by The Left Banke, which was co-written by his son. The song hit #5 in the U.S. in 1966 and was the band’s biggest hit.
Lookofsky played for five years with the St. Louis Symphony then came to New York to join the NBC Symphony when it was formed in 1938 for Arturo Toscanini, staying a dozen years. In 1950, he joined ABC in New York, including a stint as concert master for Paul Whiteman.
Lookofsky became the first to figure out how to successfully play be-bop on the violin (as well as on the rarely heard tenor violin).
Lookofsky’s violin was made by Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu in 1726, which costs him upwards of $30,000.