Joe Tarto

Joe Tarto ( born February 22, 1902 in Newark, † August 24 1986 in Morristown ( New Jersey)) was an American bass player (tuba, double bass) in dance orchestras and jazz.

Tarto tuba played in an Army band during World War I, for which he volunteered ( by concealing his true age), was wounded and discharged in 1919. He was from 1920, a professional musician, toured with Cliff Edwards and was in the band 1922 to 1924 by Paul Specht. After that he was in the orchestras of Sam Lanin and Vincent Lopez and starred in Broadway orchestras. He arranged for Chick Webb and Fletcher Henderson.

He can be heard on many recordings in the 1920s, among other things, with Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Miff Mole, Red Nichols, Phil Napoleon, Eddie Lang, Ethel Waters, the Boswell Sisters, the Dorsey Brothers and Bing Crosby. In the 1930s, he played two years with Roger Wolfe Kahn and then there was a studio musician, played in theaters and with symphony orchestras.

In later years he played in small groups and Dixie had her own New Jersey Dixieland Brass Quintet.

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