Phil Kraus

Phil Kraus was far and away one of the busiest and most prolific New York City studio percussionists of the postwar era, appearing on sessions headlined by Percy Faith, Hugo Winterhalter, Andre Kostelanetz and virtually every other giant of easy listening and lounge music. According to the spaceagepop.com website, Kraus was born in New York in 1918, and began playing xylophone at age 8; he ...more