Joe Venuto
Joseph A. "Joe" Venuto (born June 20, 1929 in the Bronx , New York City , † February 14, 2019 ) was an American jazz and studio musician ( vibraphone , marimba , percussion , also drums ).
Live and act
Venuto grew up in the New York Bronx in an Italian immigrant family; he received his first drum kit from his grand-cousin. He had lessons with Henry Adler and finally with Phil Kraus in mallet percussion. After completing his master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music , he became a member of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra , with which he made his first recordings in 1953 (“Doodletown Races”, RCA). In the Vibraphone category , the Down Beat readers voted him the best musician in the Reader's Poll . He was featured as a soloist with Sauter-Finegan in the pieces “Solo for Joe” and “Swingcussion”.
From the mid-1950s Venuto also worked with Billy Byers , in the Westchester Workshop (1955, among others with Eddie Bert , Carmen Leggio ), Kent Harian and his Orchestra, Bobby Dukoff, from 1956 in the Johnny Richards Orchestra, before joining Radio City Music Hall worked as a studio musician in the recording and television studios. In 1959 he recorded an album under his own name for Everest Records. a. Howard Collins , Julius Ruggiero , Mousie Alexander and Sandi Blaine contributed.
Venuto can be heard on the Stan Getz album Focus as a member of the Eddie Sauter Orchestra. In the field of jazz he was involved in 104 recording sessions between 1953 and 1975. a. also with Jack Teagarden , Kenyon Hopkins ( The Sound of New York ), Rex Stewart ( Porgy and Bess Revisited ), The Creed Taylor Orchestra, Irene Kral / Al Cohn Orchestra, Mary Ann McCall , Don Costa , Hal Mooney , Ruth Brown , Gene Krupa and His Orchestra , LaVern Baker , Budd Johnson , Marion Montgomery , Benny Goodman , Shirley Scott , Solomon Burke , Gary McFarland , Jim Timmens and His Swinging Brass, Tony Mottola , Johnny Hodges , Hank Jones / Oliver Nelson , Marvin Stamm , Paul Desmond , still with Jay Berliner , Lou Donaldson and Gerry Mulligan in the early 1970s. He left New York City in the early 1970s and moved to Reno, Nevada.
Web links
- Joe Venuto at Allmusic (English)
- Joe Venuto at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry (AllAboutJazz)
- ^ A b c Greg Venuto: A tribute to my dad, Joe Venuto. Musikegerwerkschaft Local 802, March 10, 2019, accessed on March 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 10, 2019)
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SURNAME | Venuto, Joe |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Venuto, Joseph A. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz and studio musician (marimba, percussion) |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx , New York City |
DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 2019 |