Joe Venuto

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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 ).

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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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry (AllAboutJazz)
  2. ^ A b c Greg Venuto: A tribute to my dad, Joe Venuto. Musikegerwerkschaft Local 802, March 10, 2019, accessed on March 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 10, 2019)
personal data
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