Artist: Bucky Pizzarelli
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
In a Mellow Tone
Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
LOVE SONGS
Year:
Tracks: 11
A superior guitar player appreciated by swing musicians in peculiar, Bucky Pizzarelli has been a fix in jazz and the studios since the early '50s. Self-taught, Pizzarelli has long been a master of the seven-string guitar. He toured with Vaughn Monroe before and after a stint in the military. In 1952, Pizzarelli linked the stave of NBC and 12 days later he switched to ABC; in addition, he worked with the Three Sounds (1956-1957) and had several tours with Benny Goodman. In the 1970s he was more active in jazz, co-leading a brace with George Barnes and working with Zoot Sims, Bud Freeman, and Stéphane Grappelli, among many others. Pizzarelli has since kept up a busy recording agenda and plays a great deal at jazz parties. Bucky has likewise recorded with his logos, John Pizzarelli, on an occasional groundwork since the early '80s, including the albums Nirvana (1995), Solos & Duets (1996), Contrasts (1999), Passionate Guitars (2001), and Generations (2007). Also in 2007 the senior Pizzarelli recorded 5 for Freddie: Bucky's Tribute to Freddie Green on the Arbors tag.
