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Dec 30, 1928 Detroit, Michigan, United States Died on 07 Feb 2006 (aged 77)
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About Jack Montrose
- Jack Montrose (December 30, 1928 – February 7, 2006) was a jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger.
- After attending college in Los Angeles, he worked with Jerry Gray and then Art Pepper.
- Montrose also did arrangements for Clifford Brown.
- He became known for cool jazz and/or West coast jazz.Montrose was born in Detroit.
- Beginning in the mid-1950s Montrose's heroin addiction became a liability and by the time he had overcome it his style of jazz was no longer popular.
- This led him to play in strip joints for a time until he relocated to Las Vegas where he worked in casinos.
- Montrose returned to recording in 1977 and in 1986 had some success in collaboration with Pete Jolly.Jack Montrose (West Coast Jack) is not to be confused with tenorist J.R.
- Monterose (East Coast Jake) who played on Charles Mingus's album Pithecanthropus Erectus. He died in Las Vegas.
