THE GREAT LARRY ADLER

Vol. 1: Original Recordings 1934–1947

“The only two young musical geniuses in the world are Yehudi Menuhin and Larry Adler” – William Walton, in the late 1940s

“He was one of the youngest old men I’ve ever met” – Sting, 2001

“He could express himself equally well in pop, jazz or classical music” – Humphrey Lyttleton, 2001

During a career which spanned 70 years, the larger-than-life Larry Adler rubbed shoulders with kings, presidents and prime ministers. An impenitent rebel and indefatigable selfpublicist, he was also a notorious story-teller and name-dropper. He claimed to have had a two-year affair with Ingrid Bergman and numbered among the disparate and seemingly endless list of his “friends” the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Philip, the King of Sweden, Martin Amis, Jack Benny, Jimmy Cagney, Shura Cherkassky, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Wade and