Fernando Arbello

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

Arbello began playing the trombone in Puerto Rico when he was twelve. He played in his high school band and the local symphony orchestra, and moved to New York City in the mid-1920s . 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 , with Billy Hicks (Sizzling Six) and recorded with Fats Walleron. At the end of the 1930s he was back with Hopkins, played with Zutty Singleton in 1940 and briefly led his own band in 1940/41. In late 1941 he was back with Henderson and Marty Marsala and from 1942 to 1946 with Jimmie Lunceford . At the end of the 1940s he again had his own band for several years, with which he did not make any 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 . Eventually he returned to Puerto Rico during the 1960s, 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 .

Web links

• Fernando Arbello at Allmusic (English)
• Fernando Arbello at Discogs (English)