Awards & Winners

Monte Kay

Date of Birth 18-September-1924
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Fremont Monte Kaplan
Profession Television Producer, Record producer, Music Producer
Monte Kay, September 18, 1924 – May 25, 1988 was a prominent figure of the New York jazz scene in the late 1940s and 1950s, producing - often in association with the disc jockey Symphony Sid - several young musicians and acting as musical director of several night clubs. According to some accounts, during those years he would sometimes introduce himself as a fair-skinned Afro-American. As the artistic director of the Royal Roost he succeeded in persuading the owner, Ralph Watkins, to hire Miles Davis' nonet - sometimes called the "Tuba Band" - with which Davis was pursuing a project that later was to be called Birth of the Cool, and which started the cool jazz movement. Kay befriended Davis and, during his later marriage to singer/actress Diahann Carroll, was for a time Miles' neighbor. In 1949 he founded the jazz club Birdland. During the 1950s, Kay produced several musicians, including Herbie Mann, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet. In the same period he married Singer/actress Diahann Carroll. Their daughter, Suzanne Kay Bamford, is a journalist and television author.

Awards by Monte Kay

Check all the awards nominated and won by Monte Kay.

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series - Musical The Flip Wilson Show

1972


Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy The Flip Wilson Show
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Program - Variety Or Music The Flip Wilson Show
For episode on 2 March 1972 (with Sammy Davis Jr., Lily Tomlin and Ed McMahon).
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series - Musical The Flip Wilson Show

1971


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series - Musical
Honored for : The Flip Wilson Show

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Series The Flip Wilson Show
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series - Musical The Flip Wilson Show