Pete Candoli

Joseph Walter " Pete " Candoli ( born June 28, 1923 in Mishawaka, Indiana, † 11 January 2008 in Studio City, California ) was an American jazz trumpeter and arranger of swing and cool jazz.

Life

Candoli learned bass and horn before he switched to trumpet. In the 1940s, he played in several big bands like that of Sonny Dunham (1941 ), Benny Goodman, Ray McKinley in 1942, Tommy Dorsey and Charlie Barnet 1943-1944. Candoli is mainly from his time from 1944 to 1946 in Big Band ( First Herd ) by Woody Herman known where he was known as a soloist through his skills in the game in the high registers, and by eccentric appearances in Superman costume, which is why he the nickname " Superman with a Horn " received. He also played first trumpet in the recording of " Ebony Concerto " by Igor Stravinsky, which this wrote for the Woody Herman Orchestra. After that, he played 1947/48 in the Glenn Miller successor band of Tex Beneke and later - after a conditional by a lip injury career break - especially as a studio musician on the West Coast, where he also with musicians from the "West Coast Jazz" as Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan and Art Pepper recorded. He stepped beside with Les Brown, Woody Herman and Stan Kenton and played and arranged with singers like Peggy Lee ( Black Coffee, 1953), Ella Fitzgerald and Judy Garland. Also he accompanied Frank Sinatra. 1954/5 he had his own combo. From 1957 to 1962 he was with his brother Conte Candoli own band, with whom the singer Betty Hutton accompanied, with whom he was married from 1960 to 1967. With his combo, he starred in the films " My Bell Book and Candle ( Bell Book and Candle ) " (directed by Richard Quine 1958) and the " Gene Krupa Story" ( Directed by Don Weis 1959) with; He joined occasionally in the " Peter Gunn " crime series on (1959, he can also be heard on the albums Peter Gunn by Henry Mancini ) and later worked as an extra. With his third wife, singer Edie Adams, he toured in the 1970s through the night clubs, where he not only played the trumpet and the orchestra conducted, but also sang.

Candoli can be heard on many recordings as a sideman. He gave seminars at several universities.

Appreciation

Pete Candoli was the older brother of jazz trumpeter Conte Candoli, who learned to play the trumpet of him, whose big band career, he gave of the first impulses and with whom he collaborated frequently. With his brother, he was inducted into the " International Jazz Hall of Fame" in 1997.