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Al Porcino
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Al Porcino was an American jazz trumpeter. Porcino began playing professionally in 1943, playing in many big bands of the 1940s and 1950s, including those of Georgie Auld, Louis Prima, Jerry Wald, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, and Chubby Jackson. He played with Woody Herman in 1946, 1949-1950, and again in 1954. He also did two stints with Stan Kenton, in 1947-48 and 1954-55. In the 1950s he played with Pete Rugolo, Count Basie, Elliot Lawrence, and Charlie Barnet. In 1957 he moved to Los Angeles and played in studios. While there he played in the Terry Gibbs Dream band between 1959 and 1962
Stretchin' Out
By Cal Tjader
Label: Nagel Heyer Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Lady Is a Tramp; Yesterdays; Mambo Sangria; East of the Sun (And West of the Moon); Fried Bananas; Mambo at the "M"; September; Amazon; Pretty Young Girl (Menina Bonita); Misty; La Bamba; It Ain't Necessarily So; Close Your Eyes; Viva Cepeda; Solar Heat; I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face; Armando's Bossa; For All We Know; Para Ti; Skyline Waltz; Mambo Macumba; For Heaven's Sake; Speak Low; Triste.
In a Lighter Vein
By Stan Kenton
Label: Sounds of Yesteryear
Released: 2020
Track listing: Theme and Introduction; Young Blood; Laura; ‘S Wonderful; Sophisticated Lady; In a
Lighter Vein; It’s a Blue World; Jump for Joe; I’ve Got You Under My Skin; Autumn in New
York; Taboo; Moonlight in Vermont; Jeepers Creepers; Harlem Nocturne; Body and Soul;
Zoot; April in Paris; Intermission Riff; My Funny Valentine; Stompin’ at the Savoy; Lullaby
of Birdland; Theme and Sign Off.
Farewell, Al Porcino
Al Porcino, a powerful lead trumpeter for several big bands, died on New Years Eve in Munich, Germany. He was 88. Porcino had lived in Germany since the late 1970s, frequently augmenting American bands touring in Europe, as well as leading his own large ensemble. A family member who reported his passing offered no information about ...
Stan Kenton: Road Shows
by Jack Bowers
For younger readers: yes, there was a time long ago when large groups of talented jazz musicians traveled without respite from city to city and town to town, braving one-night stands or more night after night in (mostly) sold-out concert halls, dance halls, pavilions, nightclubs, schools and other venues. They were known as big bands, so ...
Skelton Skinner All Stars / Clare Fischer Big Band / Ron Carter's Great Big Band
by Jack Bowers
Skelton Skinner Allstars Big BandCookin' with the Lid OnDiving Duck Records2012 Back in the late 1950s, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs (with some help from his friends) put together an ensemble that became known as the Terry Gibbs Dream Band, took up residence in Hollywood and began blowing audiences ...
Take Five With Tommy Vig
by Tommy Vig
Meet Tommy Vig: Born to a musical family in Budapest, Tommy Vig was internationally recognized as a child prodigy by the age of six, playing drums with his father, clarinetist Gyorgy Vig. His sense of improvisation, rhythm and energy at that young age made him unique, and he performed live concerts on radio, at ...
Interview: Al Porcino (Part 3)
Tell most big band trumpeters from the '50s that you dig jazz, and they'll likely correct you by saying that they didn't play jazz. A majority of musicians who played in the trumpet sections of prominent bands viewed themselves as highly skilled readers who added a particular flavor to the whole ensemble, not improvisers. Except, that ...
Interview: Al Porcino (Part 2)
If you own a big band album from the post-war years, chances are Al Porcino is playing first trumpet on the recording. Al often was featured in that chair for his swinging leadership skills, the clarity of his playing, his sight-reading abilities and his knack for hitting screaming high notes. A trumpet section's job is to ...
Interview: Al Porcino (Part 1)
Al Porcino is easily one of jazz's greatest living trumpet players. In addition to playing on 342 recording sessions since 1942, he is the last known surviving member of Charlie Parker's first strings date—Neal Hefti's recording of Repetition in December 1947. Al also has the distinction of having played first trumpet in nearly every major big ...
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