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Monte Kay (September 18, 1924 – May 25, 1988) [1][2] was an American musicians' agent and record producer. Kay acted as a talent scout and as the musical director of several night clubs on the New York jazz scene in the late 1940s and 1950s.
May 27, 1988 · Monte Kay, record producer, personal manager and founder of several jazz clubs in New York City, died Wednesday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center of an apparent heart attack. Kay, 63, began...
May 28, 1988 · Monte Kay, a recording company president and jazz entrepreneur who was a co-founder of Birdland, a nightclub in New York, died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 63 years old.
In 1963, Kay became the manager of the comedian Flip Wilson. The two formed the record label Little David Records, which featured comedy albums by Wilson, George Carlin and others. Kay was executive producer of the TV show The Flip Wilson Show. Kay died of heart failure in Los Angeles in 1988.
Mar 30, 2016 · Promoter Monte Kay (born Fremont Kaplan) was a lover of black music and culture who tried to pass himself off as black thanks to his olive-toned skin and curly hair. Since the early '40s, Kay had been producing concerts in any space he could rent, mostly fraternal halls and other small auditoriums; bebop was not yet well known, and only a small ...
Oct 23, 1993 · Monte Kay, an agent who worked with many jazz musicians, eventually booked the nine-piece ensemble into the Royal Roost, a popular bop joint on Broadway, where it opened in August 1948, second...
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Career. On the New York jazz scene in the late 1940s and 1950s, he acted as a talent scout and as the musical director of several night clubs. According to some accounts, during those years he would sometimes introduce himself as a fair-skinned Afro-American.
