"Mr. Night Train" Buddy Morrow was born Muni Zudekoff on Feb. 8, 1919, in New Haven, Conn., to immigrants from Poland and Russia. The fifth of six children in a musical family, he ended up learning trombone at age 12 because an older brother had already claimed the trumpet.
Within a year, Morrow was performing in local dance bands, and by 15 he was playing at college dances and parties with the Yale Collegians.
After moving to New York City, he accompanied a roommate to an audition at the Juilliard School and was mistakenly asked to try out. Caught unprepared, he played from memory difficult passages from "Arban's Famous Method for Trombone," considered a bible of sorts for trombone players, said Terry Myers, a friend and musician.
Juilliard offered him a full scholarship when he was 16, and he attended the school for a year before he was recruited for the Artie Shaw Orchestra.
He later conducted and played with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra for more than 30 years...
He passed away in 2010...
From 1951 till 1960 he played the trombone in and led the Buddy Morrow Orchestra and here's an album from those years....
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