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| About Artist Name: Rene Bloch DOB: Place of birth: Los Angeles Currently resides in: Rancho Cucamonga, CA Education: --- Family: French immigrant Jewish father and an American Jewish mother born and raised in Sonora, Mexico Trademark look: --- Stage name(s): "Mr. Latin" Charities/causes:
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| A veteran Los Angeles session player and bandleader active in the 40s, 50s, and 60s, Bloch enjoyed a uniquely varied career: He played on records by Frank Sinatra and Eartha Kitt, was a regular on Los Angeles’ esteemed Central Avenue rhythm & blues scene, dropped one of the most infamous burlesque sax runs on The Johnny Otis Band’s “Harlem Nocturne,” was a staple of mambo king Perez Prado’s big band and a member of The Afro Blues Quintent (the band that eventually become funk icons War), and then in the 60s went on to lead his own Latin big band, which included Afro-Cuban superstars like Mongo Santamaria and Willie Bobo, over the course of seven LPs for labels big and small (from Capitol to Andex). In the 80s, Bloch converted to Messianic Judaism, played sax for the Messianic band Israel’s Hope, and is now the Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth Shalom in Rancho Cucamonga, California. |
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