Larry Gold- The Man With Classical Touch.

Larry Gold- The Man With Classical Touch.

Born in Kensington,North Philadelphia, in 1948 of Jewish parents. Larry started to play professionally with the cello in this early teens as soloist for the Philadelphia Orchestra. By the mid 1960s he began to play at the supper club the Latin Casino for house band in the city of Philadelphia, where he did supported for such artist as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis Jr.

As the 1960s progressed , session work began to be developed at Cameo Parkway Records studios,he started play behind such acts as Chubby Checker and Dee Dee Sharp. Larry stared to work for three music visionaries: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell who were the architect of the “Philadelphia Soul and R&B Sound.”

In the early 1970s, Gamble and Huff established Philadelphia International Records under written by CBS Records with the legendary CliveDavis as CEO at the time. From that moment on he played on almost every hit record that came out of PIR (Philadelphia International Records) from 1971 to the early 1980s. On such acts as: Teddy Pendergrass, The O 'Jays, Three Degress, Billy Paul,MFSB,Jones Girls and Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes.
For Thom Bell production activities he did session work for The Spinners The Stylistics and The Delfonics to name a few.

As we fast forward to 1990s , he opened his own full-time recording studio in 1996 to meet the needs of the of the increasing list of clients coming to his assistance for strings arrangements in the Philly classic tradition.Some of the many string arrangements that Larry has done include The Roots’ Grammy winning single “You Got Me” (featuring Erykah Badu); and Jennifer Lopez’s number one single “If You had My Love.” Larry arranged, conducted, and played cello for Jay-Zs performance on MTV Unplugged with the Roots. Since the 21st century Larry as written, conducted and arranged strings for Carvin Haggins and Ivan Barrias ,Andre Harris and Vidal Davis ,Rodney Jerkins ,Kirk Franklin,James Poyser, and ?uestlove.

Michael Jackson's the tenth and final studio album “Invincible” was recorded at Larry's studio with Rodney Jerkins, Andre Harris and Vidal Davis involved in the production end of the recording with legendary studio engineer Bruce Swedien.