# Marky Markowitz > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marky_Markowitz > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Marky_Markowitz.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marky_Markowitz > Source revision: 1343494844 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Irvin** "**Marky**" **Markowitz** (December 11, 1923 – November 18, 1986), also known as **Irwin Markowitz** or **Irving Markowitz**, was an American [jazz](/source/Jazz) trumpeter. Born the youngest of seven children of Russian-Jewish immigrants who disembarked in Baltimore, and settled on 4 1/2 Street, Southwest, in Washington, D.C., Markowitz learned the trumpet at the local Police Boys' Club. He played early in his career in a number of [big bands](/source/Big_band), including those of [Charlie Spivak](/source/Charlie_Spivak) (1941–42), [Jimmy Dorsey](/source/Jimmy_Dorsey), [Boyd Raeburn](/source/Boyd_Raeburn), and [Woody Herman](/source/Woody_Herman) (1946). He played in [Buddy Rich](/source/Buddy_Rich)'s orchestra in 1946–47, then returned to service under Herman in 1947–48. Moving his family from Washington, D.C. to New York in 1958, and eventually settling in Nyack, he worked primarily as a studio musician in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Some live appearances included work with Herman, [Gene Krupa](/source/Gene_Krupa) (1958), [Lee Konitz](/source/Lee_Konitz) (1959), [Ralph Burns](/source/Ralph_Burns), [George Russell](/source/George_Russell_(composer)), [Al Cohn](/source/Al_Cohn) (1962), [Paul Desmond](/source/Paul_Desmond) (1969), and [Bill Evans](/source/Bill_Evans) (1974). Marky was a "first call" trumpeter for many top artists of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, the [Young Rascals](/source/The_Rascals), Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Maynard Ferguson, George Segal, and many others, as well as hundreds of advertising "jingles", TV ads and movie scores. He was a perennial on the [Jerry Lewis](/source/Jerry_Lewis) Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy, and known for a "sweet" tone on the trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a better-than-average vocal impression of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, which was featured on a 1970s TV commercial for Hecker's Flour. In January 1985, just the year before his death at age 62, Marky returned to his hometown of Washington, D.C. to perform with an All-Star band, led by famed composer/arranger [Nelson Riddle](/source/Nelson_Riddle), at the Inaugural Ball for President [Ronald Reagan](/source/Ronald_Reagan)'s 2nd term. He led only one recording session, for Harry Lim's Famous Door label in 1976. ## Discography **With [David Amram](/source/David_Amram)** - *[Subway Night](/source/Subway_Night)* (RCA, 1973) **With [Burt Bacharach](/source/Burt_Bacharach)/[Dionne Warwick](/source/Dionne_Warwick)** - *[Walk On By](/source/Walk_On_By_(song))* (1964) **With Richard Barbary** - *Soul Machine* (A&M, 1968) **With [Gato Barbieri](/source/Gato_Barbieri)** - *[Caliente](/source/Caliente_(Gato_Barbieri_album))* (A&M, 1976) **With [Louie Bellson](/source/Louie_Bellson)** - *[Breakthrough!](/source/Breakthrough_(Louie_Bellson_album))* (Project 3, 1968) **With [Tony Bennett](/source/Tony_Bennett)** - *[Fool of Fools](/source/Fool_of_Fools)* (45 rpm, CBS, 1968) - *[Play it Again, Sam](/source/I've_Gotta_Be_Me_(Tony_Bennett_album))* (45 rpm, CBS, 1969) - *[What The World Needs Now Is Love](/source/What_The_World_Needs_Now_Is_Love)* (45 rpm, CBS, 1969) - *[You Can't Love 'Em All](/source/You_Can't_Love_'Em_All)* (Columbia, 1959) - *[Ask Anyone In Love](/source/Ask_Anyone_In_Love)* (Columbia, 1959) - *Yesterday I Heard the Rain* (Columbia, 1968) - *[I've Gotta Be Me](/source/I've_Gotta_Be_Me)* (Columbia, 1969) - *[Summer of '42](/source/Summer_of_'42_(Tony_Bennett_album))* (Columbia, 1972) **With [Sonny Berman](/source/Sonny_Berman)** - *[Early Bebop Pioneer](/source/Early_Bebop_Pioneer)* (Gramercy, 1948) **With [Brasilia Nueva](/source/Brasilia_Nueva)** - *[How Insensitive](/source/How_Insensitive)* (Decca, 1967) **With [Bob Brookmeyer](/source/Bob_Brookmeyer)** - *[Portrait of the Artist](/source/Portrait_of_the_Artist_(album))* (Atlantic, 1960) **With [Solomon Burke](/source/Solomon_Burke)** - *[The Best of Solomon Burke](/source/The_Best_of_Solomon_Burke)* (Atlantic, 1964) **With [Ralph Burns](/source/Ralph_Burns)** - *[Where There's Burns, There's Fire](/source/Where_There's_Burns,_There's_Fire)* (Warwick, 1961) **With [Paul Butterfield](/source/Paul_Butterfield)** - *[Put It In Your Ear](/source/Put_It_In_Your_Ear)* (Bearsville, 1976) **With [Emmett Carls](/source/Emmett_Carls) / [Lennie Tristano](/source/Lennie_Tristano)** - *[The Lost Session](/source/The_Lost_Session)* (Jazz Guild, rec. 1945, rel. 1976) **With [Barbara Carroll](/source/Barbara_Carroll)** - *[From The Beginning](/source/From_the_Beginning_(Barbara_Carroll_album))* (United Artists, 1977) **With [Chris Connor](/source/Chris_Connor)** - *Free Spirits* (Atlantic, 1962) **With [King Curtis](/source/King_Curtis)** - *[Jazz Super Hits, Vol. 2 "Philly Dog"](/source/Jazz_Super_Hits,_Vol._2_%22Philly_Dog%22)* (Atlantic, 1966) **With [Paul Desmond](/source/Paul_Desmond)** - *[From the Hot Afternoon](/source/From_the_Hot_Afternoon)* (A&M/CTI, 1969) **With [Neil Diamond](/source/Neil_Diamond)** - *In My Lifetime* (Rel. 1996, Columbia) **With [Bo Diddley](/source/Bo_Diddley)** - *[Big Bad Bo](/source/Big_Bad_Bo)* (Chess, 1974) **With [Duke Ellington](/source/Duke_Ellington)** - *[Best Of the War Years](/source/Best_Of_the_War_Years)* (Rel. 1993) **With [Bill Evans](/source/Bill_Evans)** - *[Symbiosis](/source/Symbiosis_(Bill_Evans_album))* (MPS, 1974) - *[The Ivory Hunters](/source/The_Ivory_Hunters)* (United Artists, 1959) **With [Maynard Ferguson](/source/Maynard_Ferguson)** - *[Conquistador](/source/Conquistador_(Maynard_Ferguson_album))* (Columbia, 1977) **With [Astrud Gilberto](/source/Astrud_Gilberto)** - *[I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do](/source/I_Haven't_Got_Anything_Better_to_Do)* (Verve, 1969) - *[That Girl From Ipanema](/source/That_Girl_From_Ipanema)* (Image, 1977) **With [Dizzy Gillespie](/source/Dizzy_Gillespie)** - *[One Night in Washington](/source/One_Night_in_Washington_(Dizzy_Gillespie_album))* (Elektra/Musician, 1955 [1983]) **With [Grant Green](/source/Grant_Green)** - *[Afro Party](/source/Afro_Party)* (Blue Note, 1971) **With [Bobby Hebb](/source/Bobby_Hebb)** - *Sunny* (Philips, 1966) **With [Woody Herman](/source/Woody_Herman)** - *[Twelve Shades of Blue](/source/Twelve_Shades_of_Blue)* (Columbia, 1947) - *"[Woodchoppers](/source/Woodchoppers)"* (Mosaic, 1947) - *[The Thundering Herds](/source/The_Thundering_Herds)* (Columbia, 1947) - *[Blowin' Up a Storm](/source/Blowin'_Up_a_Storm)* (Columbia, 1947) - *[The Fourth Herd](/source/The_Fourth_Herd)* (Riverside/Jazzland, 1959) - *[First Herd at Carnegie Hall](/source/First_Herd_at_Carnegie_Hall)* (Verve, 1946) **With [Tommy James and the Shondells](/source/Tommy_James_and_the_Shondells)** - *[I Think We're Alone Now](/source/I_Think_We're_Alone_Now)* (1967) **With [Tamiko Jones](/source/Tamiko_Jones)** - *[I'll Be Anything for You](/source/I'll_Be_Anything_for_You)* (A&M, 1968) **With [Ben E. King](/source/Ben_E._King)** - *[Seven Letters](/source/Seven_Letters_(Ben_E._King_album))* (Atco, 1964) **With [Lee Konitz](/source/Lee_Konitz)** - *[You and Lee](/source/You_and_Lee)* (Verve, 1959) **With [Gene Krupa](/source/Gene_Krupa)** - *[Gerry Mulligan Arrangements](/source/Gerry_Mulligan_Arrangements)* (Verve, 1958) **With [The Manhattan Transfer](/source/The_Manhattan_Transfer)** - *[The Best of the Manhattan Transfer](/source/The_Best_of_the_Manhattan_Transfer)* (1981) - *[Pastiche](/source/Pastiche_(album))* (Atlantic, 1978) **With [Herbie Mann](/source/Herbie_Mann)** - *[My Kinda Groove](/source/My_Kinda_Groove)* (Atlantic, 1964) - *[Our Mann Flute](/source/Our_Mann_Flute)* (Columbia, 1964) - *[The Best of Herbie Mann](/source/The_Best_of_Herbie_Mann)* (Atlantic, 1966) **With [Jackie McLean](/source/Jackie_McLean)** - *[Monuments](/source/Monuments)* (RCA, 1979) **With [Carmen McRae](/source/Carmen_McRae)** - *[Birds of a Feather](/source/Birds_of_a_Feather_(Carmen_McRae_album))* (Decca, 1958) **With [Butch Miles](/source/Butch_Miles)** - *[Miles and Miles of Swing](/source/Miles_and_Miles_of_Swing)* (Famous Door, 1977) **With [Blue Mitchell](/source/Blue_Mitchell)** - *[Many Shades of Blue](/source/Many_Shades_of_Blue)* (Mainstream, 1974) **With [Hugo Montenegro](/source/Hugo_Montenegro)** - *[Cha Chas for Dancing](/source/Cha_Chas_for_Dancing)* (1966) **With [James Moody](/source/James_Moody_(saxophonist))** - *[Moody with Strings](/source/Moody_with_Strings)* (Argo, 1961) **With [Claus Ogerman](/source/Claus_Ogerman) Orchestra** - *[Bill Evans Trio with Claus Ogerman Orchestra](/source/Bill_Evans_Trio_with_Claus_Ogerman_Orchestra)* (MPS, 1974) **With [Felix Pappalardi](/source/Felix_Pappalardi)** - *Don't Worry, Ma* (A&M, 1979) **With [Bill Potts](/source/Bill_Potts_(musician))** - *Bye Bye Birdie* (Colpix, 1963) - *[The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess](/source/The_Jazz_Soul_of_Porgy_and_Bess)* (United Artists, 1959) - *[How Insensitive](/source/How_Insensitive)* (Decca, 1967) **With [Tito Puente](/source/Tito_Puente)** - *[Herman's Heat and Puente's Beat](/source/Herman's_Heat_and_Puente's_Beat)* (Palladium, 1958) **With [Buddy Rich](/source/Buddy_Rich)** - *[Both Sides](/source/Both_Sides)* (Mercury, 1976) - *[The Rich Rebellion](/source/The_Rich_Rebellion)* (Mercury, 1960) - *[The Driver](/source/The_Driver_(Buddy_Rich_album))* (EmArcy, 1960) **With [Lalo Schifrin](/source/Lalo_Schifrin)** - *[New Fantasy](/source/New_Fantasy)* (Verve, 1964) **With [George Segal](/source/George_Segal)** - *[The Yama Yama Man](/source/The_Yama_Yama_Man)* (Philips, 1967) **With [Bobby Short](/source/Bobby_Short)** - *[No Strings](/source/No_Strings)* (Atlantic, 1962) **With [Paul Simon](/source/Paul_Simon)** - *[One Trick Pony](/source/One-Trick_Pony_(album))* (Warner Bros, 1980) - *[The Essential Paul Simon](/source/The_Essential_Paul_Simon)* (Sony, Rel. 2010) **With [Zoot Sims](/source/Zoot_Sims)** - *[The Aztec Suite](/source/The_Aztec_Suite)* (United Artists, 1959) **With [Jimmy Smith](/source/Jimmy_Smith_(musician))** - *[The Cat](/source/The_Cat_(album))* (Verve, 1964) **With [Howard Tate](/source/Howard_Tate)** - *[Howard Tate](/source/Howard_Tate)* (Atlantic, 1971) **With [Joe Thomas](/source/Joe_Thomas_(tenor_saxophonist))** - *[Masada](/source/Masada)* (Groove Merchant, 1975) **With [Joe Timer](/source/Joe_Timer) and [Charles Mingus](/source/Charles_Mingus)** - *[Tiny's Blues](/source/Tiny's_Blues)* (Mythic, 1953) **With [Leslie Uggams](/source/Leslie_Uggams)** - *[My Own Morning](/source/My_Own_Morning)* (Atlantic, 1967) **With [Frankie Valli](/source/Frankie_Valli)** - *[Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You](/source/Can't_Take_My_Eyes_Off_Of_You)* (1967) **With [Loudon Wainwright III](/source/Loudon_Wainwright_III)** - *[T Shirt](/source/T_Shirt_(album))* (Arista, 1976) **With [Grover Washington Jr.](/source/Grover_Washington_Jr.)** - *[All the King's Horses](/source/All_the_King's_Horses_(Grover_Washington,_Jr._album))* (Kudu, 1972) **With [Kai Winding](/source/Kai_Winding)** - *[The In Instrumentals](/source/The_In_Instrumentals)* (Verve, 1965) ## Film credits - *[All That Jazz](/source/All_That_Jazz_(film))* (1979) - *[Badge 373](/source/Badge_373)* (1973) - *[Bananas](/source/Bananas_(film))* (1971) - *[Being There](/source/Being_There)* (1979) - *[The Boys in the Band](/source/The_Boys_in_the_Band_(1970_film))* (1970) - *[The Cotton Club](/source/The_Cotton_Club_(film))* (1984) - *[The Fan](/source/The_Fan_(1981_film))* (1981) - *[Foul Play](/source/Foul_Play_(1978_film))* (1978) - *[Four Jills in a Jeep](/source/Four_Jills_in_a_Jeep)* (1944) - *[Frosty's Winter Wonderland](/source/Frosty's_Winter_Wonderland)* (1979) - *[Good Morning, Vietnam](/source/Good_Morning,_Vietnam)* (1987) - *[Hair](/source/Hair_(film))* (1979) - *[The Heartbreak Kid](/source/The_Heartbreak_Kid_(1972_film))* (1972) - *[Lenny](/source/Lenny_(film))* (1974) - *[The Lords of Flatbush](/source/The_Lords_of_Flatbush)* (1974) - *[Made for Each Other](/source/Made_for_Each_Other_(1971_film))* (1971) - *[National Lampoon's Movie Madness](/source/National_Lampoon's_Movie_Madness)* (1983) - *[Pennies From Heaven](/source/Pennies_from_Heaven_(1981_film))* (1981) - *[Pin Up Girl](/source/Pin_Up_Girl_(film))* (1944) - *[Prime Suspect /aka/ Cry of Innocence](/source/Prime_Suspect_/aka/_Cry_of_Innocence)* (1982) - *[Stagecoach](/source/Stagecoach_(1966_film))* (1966) - *[Take the Money and Run](/source/Take_the_Money_and_Run_(film))* (1969) ## Television - *[ABC World News Tonight](/source/ABC_World_News_Tonight)* theme - *[The Price Is Right](/source/The_Price_Is_Right_(U.S._game_show))* theme (CBS) - *[20/20](/source/20/20_(U.S._TV_series))* theme (ABC) ## References - [Feather, Leonard](/source/Leonard_Feather). *The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz*. 1960. pp 322. - [Yanow, Scott](/source/Scott_Yanow). *Trumpet Kings*. 2001. pp. 243. - Yanow, Scott. [ Irwin "Marky" Markowitz] at [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic). --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Marky Markowitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marky_Markowitz) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marky_Markowitz?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.