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Sy Platt Obituary
He is survived by his wife, Kathleen Wallace, his children, David and Jennifer, grandson, David, and stepdaughter, Maggie.
Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Sy was a Juilliard graduate. He had a varied and colorful career. It included stints at the renowned Harlem club, The Savoy Ballroom, for performances and recordings with PDQ Bach, the original Broadway production and recording of Fiddler on the Roof, many years of playing with name salsa bands in the New York area, a tour of the Netherlands in the Heineken Jazz Festival, and in the Kool Jazz Festival.
A Bucks County resident from 1970 through 2017, he played in the Bucks County Symphony, and taught trumpet, jazz improvisation, and jazz history at Bucks County Community College, where he established the jazz studies program. He performed regularly in the greater Philadelphia area with many jazz greats, including for 20 years in the Swan Lounge at The Four Seasons Hotel with Al Stauffer, Tom Lawton and Larry McKenna. His 24 Etudes for Trumpet is sold world wide. He was known for his beautiful tone, general knowledge of music, his skill at improvisation, and his quirky sense of humor.
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Steve Medeiros
January 8, 2020
In the heady days of the 1970s at Bucks, Sy introduced me to the wider world of music where I fell in love with material I had not been exposed to before. Thank you, Sy, for the journey.
January 7, 2020
While attending classes at BC3 in the '80's I worked in the cafeteria. Sometimes when Sy came in for lunch he would have his trumpet with him and Marty would always ask him to play. Sy would oblige an Marty would buy his lunch.
In the 90's, Sy would come into the store I was working in and we would chat about those days and laugh.
Sy was a genuinely nice person and will be missed.
Beth Williams-Schools
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