Marty Flax

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Marty Flax, born Flachsenhaar (October 7, 1924 – July 3, 1972) was an American jazz saxophonist.

Flax also played flute, clarinet and trombone in addition to sax. He was a baritone saxophonist in the bands of Louis Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Perez Prado, and Tito Puente, and also played on soundtracks composed by Raymond Scott. He worked with Les Elgart and Claude Thornhill in the late 1950s, then with Quincy Jones and Gillespie (including on State Department tours of the Middle East and South America). Early in the 1960s he again toured South America with the Woody Herman orchestra, and led a house band at the Cafe Society when not on tour. He also worked with Buddy Rich and Sammy Davis, Jr..

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• Eugene Chadbourne, Marty Flax at All Music Guide