Pete Candoli

Pete Candoli (Walter Joseph Firstly Candoli) is a Trompettiste of American Jazz born the June 26th 1923 with Mishawaka (Indiana). It is sometimes called Pete “Superman” Candoli .

Biography

Older brother of the trumpet player Tale Candoli, Pete Candoli learns successively the double bass, the horn, then the trumpet. In 1940, makes its professional beginnings in the orchestra of Sony Durham. One then hears it in many Big band S of which those of Benny Goodman, Ray McKinley (1942), Tommy Dorsey (1943-1944), Charlie Barnet (1944), Woody Hermann (1946), Boyd Raeburn (1947), Tex Beneke (1948), Jerry Gray (1950-1951). It settles in California where it occurs with the singer Peggy Lee or orchestrates it Stan Kenton. From 1954, it occurs with its own group, then, as from 1959, in a formation Co-directed with his/her Conte brother (as from 1959). It carries out in parallel an intense career of musician of studio, working much for the cinema, television, the radio and taking part in the recordings of many singers or singers. In the Seventies, he plays in the orchestra of the television program of Merv Griffin. Married successively to two actress-singers, Betty Hutton then Edie Adams, Pete Candoli also led, parallel to its musical activities, a career of actor (cf the 3rd external bond).

Pete Candoli is a trumpet player having an impressive technique (in particular a remarkable control of the acute register… from where the nickname “Superman”), an excellent musician of desk and a soloist shining even if he is perhaps an jazzman less inventive than his brother Conte.

External bonds

http://www.candoli.com/
http://www.jazzprofessional.com/report/PeteCandoli.htm

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