Pete Rugolo
Pietro "Pete" Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an Italian-born American jazz composer and arranger.
Life and career
Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Santa Rosa, California. He began his career in music playing the baritone horn, like his father, but he quickly branched out into other instruments, notably the French horn and the piano. He received a bachelor's degree from San Francisco State College, and then went on to study composition with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, California and earn his master's degree.
After he graduated, he was hired as an arranger and composer by guitarist and bandleader Johnny Richards. He spent World War II playing with altoist Paul Desmond in an Army band.
After the war, Rugolo worked for Stan Kenton, who headed one of the most musically progressive big bands of the era. He and the songwriter Joe Greene collaborated on songs that made Kenton's band one of America's most popular. Rugolo provided arrangements and original compositions that drew on his knowledge of 20th-century music, sometimes blurring the boundaries between jazz and classical music.
Rugolo, Pete Filmography
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1997, role: composer
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1983, role: composer
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1982, role: composer
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1981, role: composer
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1981, role: composer
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1956, role: actor , character name: Conductor
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1951, role: composer
Pete Rugolo
ALBUMS
- Rugolovations released: 2005
Rugolovations
Released 2005- That Old Black Magic
- Laura
- Early Stan
- Come Back Little Rocket
- You Stepped Out of a Dream
- California Melodies
- Bazaar
- 360 Special
- Theme from the Lombardo Ending
- Manana
- Good Evening Friends Boogie
- King Porter Stomp
- In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
- Jingle Bells Mambo
- Poinciana
- My Funny Valentine
- Rugolo Meets Shearing
- Mixing the Blues
- 4:20 AM
- Latin Nocturne
- There Will Never Be Another You
Born: 1915-12-25
Died: 2011-10-16
