Hollman’s Big Band Explosion with her husband. Linda Moody, widow of saxophone great James Moody, remembered hearing Mr. Up until his illness started knocking him out, he’d call the guys from our R&B days to get together for lunch.” His ethics were such that he would not sneak non-union musicians into his bands. “He was a warm, wonderful person and extremely honest. “We were friendly competitors,” Stone said. They participated in battles of the bands. Stone met him at San Diego High School, where the bandleader also met his wife. He also became close to such notable musicians as Sammy Nestico, Arthur Blythe and James Moody, according to Dwight Stone, Mr. In the band was future drum legend Billy Cobham, who became one of Benny’s longtime friends. He played for all his friends going overseas at the docks.” “I joined him when he was stationed at the Brooklyn Army Terminal,” recalled Dorothy Hollman, adding that their first son, Marc, was born there. He attended City College, and then served in the U.S. He graduated from San Diego High School, where he formed an R&B group, The Velvetones. His parents were not musical, but his mother rented him a saxophone when he was 11. Hollman was born in Logan Heights on March 24, 1940, to Bernardo Manuel Hollman and Sofia Rodriguez. For a number of years, he was a business agent and contractor for the organization. Hollman was a dedicated member of the Musicians Association of San Diego County, the local union, since he joined in 1957. Hollman received the American Federation of Musicians’ Special Recognition Award, saluting them for having performed benefit concerts across the nation for the federation’s emergency relief fund. He played at the Catamaran and La Costa for many years. “He loved the big bands and conducting them. “Benny was Frankie Laine’s best man at his wedding they were good friends,” said Dorothy J. He was vocal great Frankie Laine’s musical director for many years. A saxophonist and flutist, he played for such artists as Lou Rawls, the Temptations, the Four Tops, the Spinners and Smokey Robinson.
When national acts came here, he would hire local musicians to join him in accompanying these acts at venues like Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay and the Belly Up. He worked primarily in San Diego, at Chargers games, weddings, conventions, holiday events and concerts.
Hollman performed a variety of big-band and Latin music.
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