Come Celebrate a Legend!

Med Flory was born in Logansport and is a Grammy award winning internationally known entertainer.  He has enjoyed successes as a jazz musician, composer, and television and film screenwriter and actor.  He has appeared in several television shows and movies.  His saxophone and clarinet work are indicative of the classic bebop sound and reflect his reverence for the music of Charlie Parker, especially Flory’s work with his band Supersax.  He has played with many greats in the jazz world, including Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill, and Buddy Clark. 

Flory said his mother inspired him to become a musician.

“My mom was the best musician in town,” he said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. Flory’s mother, Florence, was a pianist, and she played the organ at church.

Flory started playing the piano in fifth grade, and in ninth grade, he began playing the saxophone. Soon afterward, he was performing in a local band in Logansport, playing two nights a week, getting paid $3 a night. Flory went on the road when he was in his early teens, performing in cities such as Lexington, Ky., and Bloomington.

In 1951, he moved to New York City, and five years later, he moved to Los Angeles.

Flory has not only enjoyed success as a jazz musician and composer, but as a screenwriter and actor. He played Clint Rush on the television western “Bonanza” and played numerous roles in “Lassie,” “Daniel Boone,” “Dallas” and “Maverick.”

He has been nominated several times for Grammy awards, and he won in 1973 with his group Supersax.