Don Scaletta

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Don Scaletta (born August 16, 1937 in Cumberland (Maryland) , † May 18, 2015 ) was an American jazz pianist and music teacher .

Live and act

Scaletta toured with the Glen Miller ( Ghost Band ) and the Charlie Spivak Orchestra. Under his own name, he recorded several LPs in the pop jazz idiom in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s with trio for Capitol and Verve Records , such as Any Time ... Any Groove! , All in Good Time! and Sunday Afternoon at the Trident (1967). He has also performed at Walt Disney World Village and worked on Disney's Magic & Wonder cruise lines. In later years he taught jazz improvisation at the University of Louisville and the University of North Florida ; he also worked in the Orlando area with his own formations. In the field of jazz he was involved in 15 recording sessions between 1964 and 2000. a. with Don Lamond , Nathan Page and Nat Adderley . In 2004 he presented a Stan Kenton tribute album with his Jazz Project . Scaletta died of heart failure on May 18, 2015, at the age of 77.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Billboard, April 24, 1965
  2. ↑ Obituary in Legacy
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 25, 2015)
  4. ^ All About Jazz: Don Scaletta and the Jazz Project: Stan Kenton Salute. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jessica Inman: Donald Eugene Scaletta: Jazz pianist saw music as art, not entertainment. In: Orlando Sentinel , May 27, 2015 (accessed May 22, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Scaletta, Don
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz pianist and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Cumberland, Maryland
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2015