Paul Ricci

Paul J. Ricci (born April 6, 1914 , † January 24, 2001 ) was an American jazz musician ( saxophone , clarinet , jazz flute ) whose career spanned seven decades.

Live and act

Ricci played from 1933 with Joe Haymes , with the first recordings for Columbia Records , from 1935 with The California Ramblers . In the following years he worked as a studio musician in numerous recording sessions, including a. with Russ Morgan , Chick Bullock , Dick Robertson , Bob Terry , Bob Howard , Miff Mole , Bert Shefter , Adrian Rollini , Sid Phillips , Maxine Sullivan / Claude Thornhill , Caspar Reardon , Leo Watson , Bing Crosby and Bea Wain . In 1938 he formed the trio Three's a Crowd with Jerry Sears (piano) and Carl Kress (guitar) for Bluebird . In the early 1940s he was a member of Will Bradley's Boogie Woogie Boys ; he also accompanied the soloists Mildred Bailey , Stuff Smith and Billie Holiday in the studio orchestras of Paul Baron and Toots Camarata . In the post-war years he mainly worked as a musician in the studios of the music labels Capitol , RCA Victor and the broadcaster NBC . In the 1950s and 60s Ricci also worked on numerous film soundtracks for Paramount and Universal Studios . He also played a. a. at Yank Lawson , Bobby Hackett , Russ Case , Brad Gowans , Jerry Jerome , Herbie Fields , Lucky Millinder , Deane Kincaide , Bob Crosby , Jimmy Dorsey , Jerry Gray , Benny Goodman , Billy Butterfield , Enoch Light & His Charleston City Allstars and a Revival the Original Dixieland Jazz Band . He last worked with Havana Carbo (So ​​I'll Dream You Again) in 1997 .

In the field of jazz he was involved in 147 recording sessions between 1933 and 1997, apart from the aforementioned also with Anita O'Day .

Web links

• Paul Ricci at Discogs (English)
• Eugene Chadbourne : Paul Ricci at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death report from the New York Musicians' Union Local 802 in April 2001
2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 27, 2016)