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Mikhalitsky Shlomo (1911-1941)

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SurnameMikhalitsky
NameShlomo
Birth year1911
Birth month3
Birth day11
Death year1941
SexM

Mikhalitsky Shlomo (stage name Jack Michalitzky) (11 March 1911 (?) — 1941 (?)) — pianist.

In 1920 Shlomo Mikhalitsky studied at the school of Yu. Maevsky; in 1922–1923, at A. Berlin’s music school. From 1924 to 1941 he was a soloist and orchestra musician in cafés and restaurants of Riga and Jūrmala (Mascotta, Rococo; in 1936 he played in M. Alyansky’s orchestra at the Otto Schwarz café; in 1939 he performed with his own orchestra at Lido, among others). In 1941 he played in a jazz orchestra conducted by V. Khan. He made sound recordings for gramophone records as part of a jazz trio at the Bellaccord studio in Riga.