George Marge: The Lebanese American Woodwind Musician You Didn’t Know You Knew
George Marge: The Lebanese American Woodwind Musician You Didn’t Know You Knew George Marge, Albany High School yearbook (1952) p. 30. Courtesy of Ancestry.com Few Arab American musicians featured on Midwest Mahjar have more recorded music credits to their name than George Marge. No single blog-post could ever do George Marge's life or career justice. Here, however, is a snippet. That I know, George Marge never released any wholly solo projects or albums. He backed and accompanied several musicians featured on our blog including Eddie “The Sheik” Kochack and Lila Stephan , and recorded with a who’s who of popular, jazz, and R&B musicians in his relatively short fifty-two years. With over two hundred recording credits to his name, let’s relay some of what we learned about oboist, flutist, saxophone and clarinet player George Marge. George Marge was born to Charles and Victoria (Arwady) Marge in 19 June 1933 in Albany, New York. Charles immigrated to the United States from Beir...