Louis Mucci
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Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .
Louis "Lou" Mucci (* 13. December 1909 in Syracuse , New York ; † 4. January 2000 ) was an American jazz - trumpet player of Swing . He later played in the Gil Evans Orchestra with Miles Davis .
Louis Mucci already mastered the tenor horn at the age of ten and switched to the trumpet six years later. He played with Red Norvo in 1937, Glenn Miller 1938-1939, Bob Chester 1940-1941. From 1943–1946, Mucci was drafted into the Army; then he was with Benny Goodman and Claude Thornhill . In the 1950s, Mucci worked freelance and as a studio musician, with Thad Jones and Charles Mingus on his music label Debut Records . In the 1960s he worked with Gil Evans on several projects; so he was involved in the records Sketches of Spain , Porgy And Bess and the live album At Carnegie Hall in 1961 , which the band leader recorded with trumpeter Miles Davis . He also made records with John LaPorta and Alonzo Levister .
Discographic notes
- Charles Mingus: The Complete Debut Recordings (Debut Records, Fantasy, 1951–1958) with Thad Jones, Don Senay
- Gil Evans: Gil Evans And Ten (OJC, 1957), The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve, 1964)
- Kenny Burrell : Guitar Forms (Verve, 1964)
- Miles Davis: Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1958), Sketches of Spain (1959), Quiet Nights (1961)
literature
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz-Lexikon , Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1988.
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
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SURNAME | Mucci, Louis |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mucci, Lou (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz trumpeter |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Syracuse , New York |
DATE OF DEATH | January 4, 2000 |