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Oct 20, 2011 · Pete Rugolo, a jazz-classical maverick in the late-1940s and architect of a brassy, West Coast orchestral sound that helped establish Stan Kenton and the music of television and the movies in the 1950s and 1960s, died on October 16 in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 95.
Nov 6, 2019 · Pete Rugolo (1915-2011) arranged this version of “Salute,” which features a large string section, five trombones, one flute, and a rhythm section. Earlier, in 1950, Rugolo composed this piece for Stan Kenton’s “Innovations in Modern Music” Orchestra, which included sixteen strings. Rugolo had worked very closely with Kenton in the ...
Oct 23, 2011 · When he joined Stan Kenton's band as an arranger in 1945 Pete Rugolo became the first in his trade to be regularly acknowledged in public. Arrangers had until then always operated anonymously in ...
Aug 25, 2016 · Arranger Pete Rugolo is an acquired taste. Listening to virtually all of his leadership albums in the 1950s and early '60s yesterday, I initially dismissed many of them as bombastic, elephantine works that relied too often on shrill trumpets and tympani drums.
Pete Rugolo (1915–2011) Rugolo was born in Sicily but his family emigrated to the US in 1920 and settled in Santa Rosa, California. He began his career in music playing baritone horn but branched out into other instruments, notably French horn and piano. He received a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State College and then studied ...
Aug 31, 2015 · Released in 1958 by Mercury Records.Expand to view this album in its entirety. . .A1) Igor Beaver 0:00A2) If you could see me now 1:58A3) Yardbird suite ...
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About Pete Rugolo. Pete Rugolo was one of the most prolific arrangers for Stan Kenton's 1945-1949 orchestras, following through on the leader's swashbuckling example to help shape the band's exciting, blasting style. Brought to the U.S. at age five, Rugolo grew up in Santa Rosa, California, and became a student of Darius Milhaud at Mills ...
