Frank Rosolino (August 20, 1926 – November 26, 1978) was an American

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Biography

Rosolino was born in

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, United States, He performed with the

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, and

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. After a period with Kenton he settled in Los Angeles, where he performed with

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's Lighthouse All-Stars (1954–1960) in Hermosa Beach. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, between nightclub engagements, Rosolino was active in many Los Angeles recording studios where he performed with such notables as

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, Sarah Vaughan,

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, Peggy Lee, Mel Tormé,

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. In the mid-to-late 1960s he and fellow trombonist Mike Barone, billed as "Trombones Unlimited," recorded for Liberty Records several albums of pop-style arrangements of current hits, such as the 1968 album ''Grazing in the Grass.'' He can also be seen performing with

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's group in the film ''

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'' (1957) with

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'' and ''

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''. Rosolino was a talented vocalist, renowned for his wild form of

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, notably on

's hit record, "Lemon Drop". During the 1970s, Rosolino performed and toured with Quincy Jones and the

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winning group

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. Rosolino's private life was highly troubled. On November 26, 1978, Rosolino shot both of his sons as they slept. One died instantly; the other survived, but was blinded. Rosolino shot himself in the head immediately after shooting his sons and died.

Discography

As leader

* ''Frank Rosolino'' (Capitol, 1954) * ''Frankly Speaking'' (Capitol, 1955) * ''I Play Trombone'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * ''Frank Rosolino Quintet'' (Mode, 1957) * ''Turn Me Loose!'' (Reprise, 1961) * ''Jazz a Confronto 4'' (Horo, 1973) * ''Conversation'' with Conte Candoli (RCA Victor, 1976) * ''Just Friends'' with Conte Candoli (MPS, 1977) * ''Thinking About You'' (Sackville, 1984) * ''Free for All'' (Speciality, 1986) * ''The Last Recording'' (Sea Breeze, 2006)

As sideman

With

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* ''Blue Flame'' (MPS/BASF 1976) * ''Red Hot'' (MPS, 1977) * ''White Heat'' (MPS, 1978) With

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* ''Fair and Warmer!'' (Capitol, 1957) * ''June's Got Rhythm'' (Capitol, 1958) * ''June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days'' (Capitol, 1959) * ''Do-Re-Mi'' (Capitol, 1961) * ''Big Band Specials'' (Capitol, 1962) * ''

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'' (Interplay, 1977) With

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* ''Launching a New Band'' (Mercury, 1959) * ''The Exciting Terry Gibbs Big Band'' (Verve, 1961) * ''Explosion!'' (Mercury, 1962) With

* '' The Hot Rock OST'' (Prophesy, 1972) * ''Body Heat'' (A&M, 1974) * ''Mellow Madness'' (A&M, 1975) * ''I Heard That!!'' (A&M, 1976) With

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'' (Capitol, 1953) * ''

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'' (Capitol, 1953) * ''

Sketches on Standards ''Sketches on Standards'' (subtitled ''Request selections from the Kenton Dance Library'') is an album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton featuring performances of jazz standards recorded in 1953 and originally released on the Capitol label as ...

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'' (Capitol, 1953) * ''

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'' (Capitol, 1954) * ''

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'' (Capitol, 1955) With

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* ''Scheherajazz'' (Pye/Golden Guinea 1959) * ''Songs and Sounds from the Era of the Untouchables'' (Somerset 1960) * ''Perspectives in Percussion Vol. 1'' (Somerset/Stereo-Fidelity, 1961) * ''Perspectives in Percussion Vol. 2'' (Somerset/Stereo-Fidelity, 1961) With

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* '' Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers'' (RCA Victor, 1957) * ''

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'' (RCA Victor, 1958) * ''

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'' (RCA Victor, 1959) * '' Shorty Rogers Meets Tarzan'' (MGM, 1960) * ''

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* ''

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'' (EmArcy, 1956) * '' Out on a Limb'' (EmArcy, 1957) * '' An Adventure in Sound: Brass in Hi-Fi'' (Mercury, 1958) * '' Percussion at Work'' (EmArcy, 1958) * ''

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'' (EmArcy, 1958) * ''

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'' (Warner Bros., 1960) * '' 10 Trombones Like 2 Pianos'' (Mercury, 1961) * '' The Original Music of Thriller'' (Time, 1961) With

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* ''Supersax Plays Bird with Strings'' (Capitol, 1975) * ''Chasin' the Bird'' (MPS, 1977) * ''Dynamite!!'' (MPS, 1979) With

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, ''

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, ''Camarata Featuring Tutti's Trombones'' (Coliseum, 1966) *

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, ''Percussion in a Tribute to Henry Mancini'' (Kimberly, 1961) *

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, ''I'm Easy'' (Asylum, 1976) *

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, ''At the Club'' (Philips, 1966) *

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, '' Jazz Loves Paris'' (Specialty, 1960) * Bob Cooper, ''

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, 1977) *

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, ''Jackie Davis Meets the Trombones'' (Capitol, 1959) *

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, ''Frances Faye in Frenzy'' (Verve, 1961) *

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, ''Dino'' (Epic, 1957) *

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, '' Killer Joe'' (Columbia, 1977) *

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, ''Free and Easy!'' (ABC-Paramount, 1958) *

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& Bill Holman, ''Jazz Erotica'' (HiFi, 1957) *

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, '' Let's Cook!'' (Contemporary, 1962) *

, ''Drummin' Man'' (Columbia, 1963) * Gene Krupa, ''1949'' (Alamac, 1974) * Peggy Lee, ''Let's Love'' (Atlantic, 1974) * Stan Levey, ''This Time the Drum's On Me'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * Stan Levey, ''Grand Stan'' (Bethlehem, 1957) *

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'' (Capitol, 1965) *

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, ''Homecooking'' (Elektra, 1976) *

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, ''First Flight'' (Catalyst, 1977) *

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Tommy Newsom Thomas Penn Newsom (February 25, 1929 – April 28, 2007) was a saxophone player in the NBC Orchestra on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'', for which he later became assistant director. Newsom was frequently the band's substitute dir ...

, ''Live from Beautiful Downtown Burbank'' (Direct-Disk, 1978) *

Lennie Niehaus Leonard Niehaus (June 1, 1929 – May 28, 2020) was an American alto saxophonist, composer and arranger on the West Coast jazz scene. He played with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and served as one of Kenton's primary staff arrangers. He also played ...

, ''Zounds!'' (Contemporary, 1958) *

Anita O'Day Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band app ...

, ''

Cool Heat ''Cool Heat'', subtitled ''Anita O'Day Sings Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements'', is an album by vocalist Anita O'Day backed by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Jimmy Giuffre which was released on the Verve label in 1959.Tom Ranier Thomas John Ranier (born July 13, 1949) is an American instrumentalist who primarily plays piano but also saxophone and clarinet. As a jazz artist he has recorded widely under his own name and as a sideman for Warner Bros., Concord Records and se ...

, ''Ranier'' (Warner Bros., 1976) *

Buddy Rich Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time. Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York ...

, ''This One's for Basie'' (Norgran, 1956) *

Johnny Richards Johnny Richards (born Juan Manuel Cascales, November 2, 1911 – October 7, 1968) was an American jazz arranger and composer. He was a pivotal arranger for some of the more adventurous performances by Stan Kenton's big band in the 1950s and e ...

, ''Something Else by Johnny Richards'' (Bethlehem, 1956) * Lee Ritenour, ''First Course'' (Epic, 1976) *

Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz Jazz drumming, drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in h ...

and Stan Levey, ''Drummin' the Blues'' (Liberty, 1958) *

Howard Roberts Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician. Early years Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 - a ...

, ''Something's Cookin' '' (Capitol, 1965) *

Moacir Santos Moacir Santos (26 July 1926 – 6 August 2006) was a Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and music educator. Musicians such as Baden Powell, Bola Sete and Wilson das Neves studied under him. As a composer, Santos worked with Nara Leão, Ro ...

, ''

Maestro Maestro (; from the Italian '' maestro'' , meaning "master" or "teacher") is an honorific title of respect (plural: maestros or maestri). The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera, in line with the ubiqu ...

'' (Blue Note, 1972) * Lalo Schifrin, '' Gone with the Wave'' (Colpix, 1965) * Lalo Schifrin, '' Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts'' (RCA Victor, 1965) *

Bud Shank Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jr. (May 27, 1926 – April 2, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He rose to prominence in the early 1950s playing lead alto and flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra and thro ...

, ''

Girl in Love ''Girl in Love'' is an album by saxophonist Bud Shank recorded in 1966 for the World Pacific label.Edwards, D., Eyrie, P. and Callahan, MWorld Pacific Album Discography accessed December 15, 2015 Reception AllMusic rated the album with 2 stars. ...

'' (World Pacific, 1966) *

Cybill Shepherd Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich's coming-of-age drama ''The Last Picture Show'' (1971) alongside Jeff Bridges. ...

, ''Mad About the Boy'' (Inner City, 1980) *

Ben Sidran Ben Hirsh Sidran (born August 14, 1943) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer. Early in his career he was a member of the Steve Miller Band and is the father of Grammy-nominated musician, composer an ...

, ''Puttin' in Time On Planet Earth'' (Blue Thumb, 1973) *

Horace Silver Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at sc ...

, '' Silver 'n Brass'' (Blue Note, 1975) * Horace Silver, '' Silver 'n Wood'' (Blue Note, 1976) *

Zoot Sims John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto (and, later, soprano) saxophone. He first gained attention in the "Four Brothers" sax section of Woody Herman's big ...

, ''Zoot Sims'' (Vogue, 1973) * Zoot Sims, '' Hawthorne Nights'' (Pablo, 1977) *

, ''Ring-a-Ding Ding!'' (Reprise, 1961) *

Joanie Sommers Joanie Sommers (born Joan Drost, February 24, 1941) is an American singer and actress with a career concentrating on jazz, standards and popular material and show-business credits. Once billed as "The Voice of the Sixties", and associated with to ...

, ''For Those Who Think Young'' (Warner Bros., 1962) * Joanie Sommers, ''The Voice of the Sixties!'' (Warner Bros., 1961) * Sonny Stitt, ''

Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements ''Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements'' is an album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt performing music arranged by Jimmy Giuffre recorded in 1959 and originally released on the Verve Records, Verve label.I Remember Bird ''I Remember Bird'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt featuring performances recorded in 1976 for the Catalyst label.

'' (Catalyst, 1977) *

Frank Strazzeri Frank Strazzeri (April 24, 1930 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz pianist. Career Strazzeri began on tenor saxophone and clarinet at age 12, then switched to piano soon after. He attended the Eastman School of Music, then took a job as a h ...

, ''Taurus'' (Revelation, 1973) * Frank Strazzeri, ''Frames'' (Glendale, 1975) *

Cal Tjader Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. ( ; July 16, 1925 – May 5, 1982) was an American Latin Jazz musician, known as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician. He explored other jazz idioms, even as he continued to perform music of Afro-Jazz, ...

, ''Huracan'' (Crystal Clear, 1978) *

Tower of Power Tower of Power is an American R&B and funk based band and horn section, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968. There have been a number of lead vocalists, the best-known being Lenny Williams, who fronted the b ...

, ''Back to Oakland'' (Warner Bros., 1974) *

Bobby Troup Robert William Troup Jr. (October 18, 1918 – February 7, 1999) was an American actor, jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. He wrote the song " Route 66" and acted in the role of Dr. Joe Early with his wife Julie London in the television prog ...

, ''Bobby Troup and His Stars of Jazz'' (RCA Victor, 1959) * Sarah Vaughan, ''Orchestra Arranged and Conducted by Michel Legrand'' (Mainstream, 1973) *

Tommy Vig Tommy may refer to: People * Tommy (given name) * Tommy Atkins, or just Tommy, a slang term for a common soldier in the British Army Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Tommy'' (1931 film), a Soviet drama film * ''Tommy'' (1975 fil ...

, ''Encounter with Time'' (Discovery, 1977) * Joe Williams, ''With Love'' (Temponic, 1972)

References

External links

Frank Rosolino at Jazz Masters

Frank Rosolino – 1926–1978 ... musical montage via Jazz Profiles blog 10/17/09 poignant posting
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