Entry #12: The Musician's of Big Fat Brass & Jooms Jooms
The Musicians Thanks for following allowing with this blog, we have finally come to the last blog post, for now! For this one, I've decided to do a bit of a deep dive into the musicians of Billy May's Big Fat Brass album and other works they are known for or anything relevant to them. Trumpet Section Conrad Gozzo was an American trumpet player and a member of the NBC Hollywood staff orchestra. He played under various bandleaders such as: Tommy Reynolds , Red Norvo , Bob Chester , and Claude Thornhill . He recorded with such artists as Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, and was the first trumpet on al recordings of Henry Mancini. In 1955, he released his own album Coz the Great! , directed by Billy May. It was not particularly successful and was reviewed as mediocre. Black Sapphire by Conrad Gozzo and His Orchestra Frank Beach was a Canadian jazz trumpet player from Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. He worked with bandleaders such as Bob Keene, Dennis Farnon, Stan Kenton, and Jerr...
