Dj Vito

Vito Price: Swingin' the Loop

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 13, 2016

Saxophonist Vito Price is virtually unknown today. In fact, he was virtually unknown back in January 1958, when he recorded Swinging the Loop for Chicago's Argo label. At the time, Price was 28 and a veteran of a clutch of road bands led by Bob Chester, Art Mooney, Tony Pastor and Chubby Jackson. He moved to Chicago from New York in the summer of '55 to join the staff orchestra of TV station WGN, where he remained for years. Swinging ...
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Vito Rezza and 5after4 - Rome in a Day (2011)

Source: Something Else!
September 8, 2011

You might read the artist name and album title and think this is a record of Italian music but, no, not exactly. 5AFTER4 is a rock-jazz outfit out of Toronto led by its drummer, Vito Rezza, and though Rezza was born in Italy, he's been in Canada for so long that a recent whirlwind trip to the country's historic capital was full of marvel to this transplanted North American musician. But like all serious musicians who are also composers, he ...
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Joe Vito Funeral / Wake / Memorial Services Info: Chicago Jazz/Caberet Pianist Dies at 79

Source: JAZZzology by Richard Watters
July 2, 2010

Longtime Chicago Jazz pianist Joe “Vito" Vitaterna passes away at age 79...he was a fifty (50) year member of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 10-208. A Chicago native, Joseph Vito began studying the piano and accordion at the age of seven; he later also studied the clarinet. After graduating from Mt. Carmel High School in 1947, he served in the Navy during the Korean conflict. While in the Navy, Vito became interested in jazz which he studied while completing ...
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Vito Di Modugno Organ Trio in New York

Source: All About Jazz
October 11, 2009

Vito Di Modugno, the phenomenal Hammond organist from Bari, Italy, will be here in the U.S. on tour from Dec. 26 to Jan. 5.

Vito has dates open and we are looking for venues that have a Hammond organ and would like to book Vito's organ trio with Francesco Lomagistro on drums and Carol Sudhalter on saxophone.

Vito has recorded over 20 albums with famous name jazz artists as well as several in his own name, has been profiled in ...
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