Louis Panico

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Louis Panico (born July 21, 1898 in Naples , Italy , † July 29, 1986 in Melrose Park , Illinois , USA) was an Italian-American jazz cornet player .

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In Naples he studied trumpet with Raffaele Toscano, the first trumpeter of the San Carlo theater orchestra. After coming to the United States at the age of 12, he began playing dance and jazz music in the early 1920s. Under the influence of the New Orleans cornet player Joe King Oliver , he came to incorporate new, original sounding effects into his jazz solos, which he - like Oliver - achieved with various dampers. He became famous for his "laughing trumpet". In his work "The Novelty Cornetist" (Forster Music, Chicago 1923/4) he vividly described his playing. This is also one of the first written instructions on how to design a jazz solo.

Panico is one of the pioneers of playing with the "stuffed" trumpet, along with Oliver and Bubber Miley, who played for Duke Ellington. He became known to a wider audience through his participation in the Isham Jones orchestra , in which he was featured in many solos. With Louis Armstrong , to whom he was defeated in a "cutting contest" (a kind of musical competition, as it was customary in the 1920s among jazz musicians to determine who was better), he was close friends; under Armstrong's influence, his style continued to develop.

In the early 1930s he led his own bands, including with the clarinetist Rod Cless , who had also played with Bix Beiderbecke. Panico was famous for his version of the "Wabash Blues". His tricks with various mutes are still discussed today on various websites by trumpeters and cornetists (see e.g. www.trumpetherald.com, passim).

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  • Chicago Sun Times, July 31, 1986
  • Donna M. Huffman, An Analysis of The Novelty Cornetist by Louis Panico. Univ. of Illinois Press 1990.
  • Gabriel Solis / Bruno Nettl, Musical Improvisation - Art, Education, and Society. Univ. of Illinois 2009, pp. 269.
  • Brian Harker, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings. Oxford Univ. Press 2011, p. 19.
  • Wolfram Knauer, improvising. Wolke Verlagsgesellschaft 2004. Page 55.
  • Richard Sudhalter. Lost Chords: White Musicians and Their Contribution to Jazz, 1914-1945. Oxford Univ. Pr. 2001.

Discographic information can be found in various jazz lexicons, mostly under the entry Isham Jones .

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SURNAME Panico, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-American jazz cornetist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples , Italy
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1986
Place of death Melrose Park , Illinois , USA