Dave Schildkraut

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Dave Schildkraut (January 7, 1925 - January 1, 1998) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.

Schildkraut first played professionally with Louis Prima in 1941. Following this he played with Buddy Rich (1946), Anita O'Day (1947), Stan Kenton (1953-54), Pete Rugolo (1954), Oscar Pettiford (1954), Miles Davis ("Solar", 1954), George Handy (1955), Tony Aless (1955), Ralph Burns, Tito Puente, Johnny Richards, and Kenton again in 1959. From the 1960s he played freelance in New York City, where he played regularly with Eddie Bert at the West End Cafe. Later in his life he went into semi-retirement.

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  • Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford, 1999, p. 586.
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