Louis Mucci

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Lou Mucci (front row, middle), with Barry Galbraith (back left) in a film orchestra at Columbia Studios, around September 1947.
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 .

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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