Jazz Articles about Pete Candoli

Pete Candoli (and Other Losses...)

by Jack Bowers
February 4, 2008

Through the years there have been a number of “family acts" in jazz, but not many in which the parent/offspring or siblings played the same instrument. An exception is the Candoli brothers, Pete and Conte, who not only played trumpet but did so with such creativity and talent that they are widely considered to be among the best who ever picked up a horn. There were some small differences. Conte, younger than Pete by four years, was best known as ...