Pete Rugolo

Genres:	Big Band & Swing, Jazz
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1980s
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Biography

25 December 1915, San Piero Patti, Messina, Sicily. Rugolo's family moved to Santa Rosa, California, USA in 1920. After studying composing and arranging under classicist Darius Milhaud, Rugolo began writing arrangements for Stan Kenton. Many of Kenton's most successful recordings of the late 40s were Rugolo charts and of these a high proportion were also his compositions. After his full-time collaboration with Kenton ended in 1949, Rugolo produced a number of recording sessions for Capitol Records including some with Miles Davis, Mel Tormé, Peggy Lee and Nat "King" Cole. He also recorded with a studio band under his own name. The period with Capitol also saw him writing additional material for Kenton and his Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, and he was arranger and musical director for June Christy's Something Cool album. In the 50s he joined Columbia Records and in the late 50s was with Mercury Records, writing for Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine and...

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