Jazz Articles about Pete Candoli

About Pete Candoli

Album Review

Peggy Lee: Too Marvelous for Words

Read "Too Marvelous for Words" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 30, 2026

“Every musician in town wanted that gig... She got whoever she wanted, because she was so good." --pianist Lou Levy, as quoted by James Gavin in Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee (Atria Books, 2014) Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1920, Peggy Lee survived a harsh childhood through music. In 1936, she began singing on KOVC radio in Valley City, North Dakota. She later hosted her own ...

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Big Band Report

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 ...