Loren Schoenberg took piano lessons from the age of four and early on he became a jazz historian, working at the New York Jazz Museum. In 1974, he began playing tenor and within two years was playing professionally. Schoenberg worked with a variety of swing greats (including Benny Goodman) and started leading a regular big band in 1980. Since then the increasingly distinctive soloist (and prolific liner note writer) has recorded a series of excellent swing-oriented records for Aviva and Music Masters, both with his big band and with a combo. ~ Scott Yanow