About Everett Longstreth...

Everett Longstreth’s extensive musical background began playing with his father’s orchestra, touring throughout the Ohio area. Upon entering the Armed Services, he was assigned to the 1st Armored Division Band at Fort Hood, Texas. While a member of this organization he helped form “The Dance Masters”, an orchestra that performed for shows and dances at various Officers’ Clubs, N.C.O Clubs, and service clubs in the surrounding area. It was at this time that Mr. Longstreth became interested in writing and arranging for bands.

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Upon Discharge from the service he enrolled at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Mass. While at Berklee he studied trumpet with the late Fred Berman and John Coffey, still an active teacher in Boston today. His studies were interrupted several times to make national tours with orchestras. Upon graduation in 1957, he immediately joined the Woody Herman Orchestra. After an extended stay with The Herman Band, he returned to Boston and was offered, and accepted a position as a faculty member of the Berklee School of Music as an arranging, theory, and ensemble instructor. While a faculty member at Berklee, he continued to write and play professionally at such places as Blistrubs Village, The Bradford Roof, and the Colonial and Shubert Theatres for Broadway musicals. In addition to this he wrote and played for several well known New England bands: Bob Bacheldor, at the famous Totem Pole Ballroom, The Freddie Sateriale Orchestra, and more noteably, the Ted Herbert Orchestra out of Manchester, New Hampshire. He also performed many times on the Channel 2 Jazz Educational series with such bands as the Joe MacDonald Orchestra and the Jimmy Mosher-Paul Fontaine Orchestra. He was also a member of the Herb Pomeroy Orchestra that traveled to New York City to play the famous jazzclub, “Birdland”. It was during this engagment that the Pomeroy Band made its first album on which Mr. Longstreth played and arranged two of the selections, namely, “Our Delight”, a Tad Dameron original, and “Wolafunts Lament” by Bill Graham.

In 1963, Mr. Longstreth received and again accepted an offer to do a world tour with the Sam Donahue-Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. This package included such stars as Frank Sinatra Jr., Helen Forrest, The late Charlie Shavers, and the Pied Pipers. The 2 1/2 year tour included Europe, Puerto Rico, the West Indies, South America and the Far East. While a member of this organization, he appeared on the Johnny Carson Show, Ed Sullivan Show, the Mike Douglas Show, the Hullabalu Show, and many other radio and TV shows in Europe, South America, and Japan. His recordings include “Young Love For Sale”; Frank Sinatra Jr., Sam DonahueOrchestra; Hello Dolly, Tommy Dorsey and Life is a Many Splendored Gig, Herb Pomeroy Orchestra. At the conclusion of this tour in 1966, Mr. Longstreth returned to Boston and joined the faculty of the Boston Conservatory of Music an arranging, theory and ensemble instructor. While a member of the faculty he composed and arranged a series of stage band material which is published by Maher Publications, an affilate of “Downbeat Magazine”.  In addition to this, he was director of the MIT Concert Jazz Band.

Since his return to the Boston area, Mr. Longstreth has worked some of the leading supper clubs in New England including, Ceasars Montecello with the Harry DeAngelis Orchestra, playing for such starts as Tony Bennett, Vicki Carr, Wayne Newton, Sergio Franchi, and many more.

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