SEYMOUR GREENE, 97 on Sept. 26 in Washington, D.C. A trombonist who played with Jack Teagarden, Bob Zurke, and the Andrews Sisters during the 1930s and 40s, and who traveled the world with Irving Berlin performing in his This is the Army show (as well as the movie).
He was also a member of the Hot Kugel Klezmer Band that performed a traditional form of Eastern European Jewish dance music whose roots predated the Middle Ages. Remembering Sy, David Sager wrote, “I never heard anyone play such perfect harmony parts—by ear—ever.”
