Joe Cabot

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joe Cabot (born Joseph Claude Caputo on July 12, 1921 in Cleveland , Ohio; died March 7, 2016 in West Nyack , New York) was an American jazz trumpeter , composer and band leader .

Life

Joseph C. Caputo came from a musical family, namely his father Joseph and his uncle August were active musicians. It was only natural that the talented boy wanted to become a professional musician. As early as 1938 he traveled through the United States with the Army Calvary Orchestra. Around 1940 Joe became sideman with the Gene Krupas Jazz Orchestra . Because everyone in music circles called him that anyway, he Americanized his original name to Joe Cabot. Engagements with the Dorsey Bothers Orchestra and the bands of Claude Thornhill and Artie Shaw followed. Peter Levinson quoted Cabot in his biography of Tommy Dorsey: "When you were with big bands in those days you lived in an iron lung in that bus. But you were part of a family."

Stylistically, he was highly valued for his emphatic phrasing and his virtuoso handling of the harmonic damper or plunger damper . His original composition "Slow Down, Sugar, Take Your Time," received high praise from music critic John Wilson and was included in the repertoire of the Nat Cole Trio.

In his musical career spanning more than six decades, he played the trumpet parts for singers Peggy Lee , Ruth Brown , Chris Connor , Eartha Kitt , Anita O'Day , Fran Warren and Tony Bennett . The accomplished trumpeter and flugelhorn player also worked for the band leaders Dizzy Gillespie , Gerry Mulligan , Oscar Peterson and Stan Getz . Both Harry James and Fran Warren had a long musical partnership and personal friendship between him. For example, in 1981 Cabot led an 8-member backing band for the renowned jazz singer for their appearances in New York's jazz club Michael's Pub. For about thirty years he also appeared on US television as part of the Cerebral Palsy and Muscular Dystrophy Telethons .

The musician left behind a wife, two daughters, including actress Christina Cabot , and three grandchildren.

Discographic Notes

  • Ruth Brown - Late Date With Ruth Brown, Atlantic 1959
  • Chris Connor - Witchcraft, Atlantic 1959
  • Fran Warren - ... Come Into My World, Audio Fidelity 1968
  • Kamahl - Live At Carnegie Hall, Philips 1976 (J. Cabot as conductor)
  • Enzo Stuarti - Falling in Love with Love, 1994 (as producer)
  • Eartha Kitt - Eartha-quake, 1994
  • Charlie Ventura - 1949-1951, 2003
  • Ruth Brown - Only the Best of Ruth Brown, 2008

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Obituary for Joe Cabot
  2. ↑ Tommy Dorsey: Livin 'in a Great Big Way by Peter Levinson, p. 60
  3. ^ Pop and Jazz: Fran Warren, Joe Cabot , New York Times, October 31, 1982, accessed March 24, 2016
  4. ↑ Joe is extensively quoted in Peter Levinson's James' biography "Trumpet Blues: The Life of Harry James" from 1999
  5. ^ Going Out Guide NYC , New York Times, February 17, 1981, accessed March 24, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Cabot, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Caputo, Joseph Claude; Joseph C. Caputo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter, composer and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2016
Place of death West Nyack , New York