Al Gallodoro

Alfred J. " Al " Gallogoro ( born June 20, 1913 in Chicago, Illinois; † 4 October 2008) was an American jazz musician (saxophone, clarinet ) and bandleader.

Gallodoro grew up in Birmingham ( Alabama). His musical career that included over eighty years, he began in 1926 in a vaudeville show at Birmingham's Lyric Theatre. He first worked in Alabama, later in New Orleans, where his parents lived from 1927. At 15, he appeared as the alto saxophonist and clarinetist in the orchestra of the Orpheum Theatre; he accompanied this artists like Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen and Milton Berle. In the early 1930s he moved to New York where he worked as a freelance musician, including as a saxophonist with the Isham Jones Orchestra. From 1936 to 1940 he was a member of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, as soloist on the alto saxophone and the clarinet. Since he also played bass clarinet in addition, he received the nickname Triple Threat.

After the dissolution of the Whiteman Orchestra Gallodoro worked until 1947 at the radio station WJZ; next he was in the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini, Leopold Stokowski and Frank Black worked. Was published in 1954 by Columbia Records the Easy Listening LP The Immortal Freddy Gardner and Al Gallodoro. Around 1965 he played in the Charles Magnante orchestra. From 1967 he worked again as a freelance studio musician for record labels, radio and television studios; From 1981 he lived in Oneonta (New York), where he taught and worked with local groups. In 1999 he released his album Al Gallodoro with The Beau Hunks - Out of Nowhere. Gallodoro worked from 1937 to 1999 at 37 recording sessions.

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