Fernando Arbello

Fernando Arbello (* May 30, 1907 in Puerto Rico, † June 26, 1970 ) was a jazz trombonist and composer from Puerto Rico.

Arbello began playing in Puerto Rico Trombone with twelve years. He played in the band in high school and in the local symphony orchestra and went mid-1920s to New York City. There he played in the orchestras of Earle Howard, Wilbur De Paris, June Clark and Bingie Madison. From the early 1930s he played intermittently with Claude Hopkins for several years, then with Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson, Lucky Millinder, Billy Hicks ( Sizzling Six ) and recorded with Fats Waller. In the late 1930s he was back at Hopkins, played in 1940 at Zutty Singleton and directed 1940/41, just a band. He was back at Henderson and Marty Marsala and 1952-1946 with Jimmie Lunceford end of 1941. In the late 1940s he had again for several years, their own band, with which he made ​​no recordings. In 1953 he played with Rex Stewart and a reunion of the Henderson band in the late 1950s. From 1960 he played with Machito. Finally, he returned in the course of the 1960s back to Puerto Rico, where he led his own band at the Hotel San Juan until his death.

As a composer he wrote Big Chief de Sota / Grand Terrace Swing with Andy Razaf.