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New Orleans Delight

Feat. Fred Vigorito

Kjeld Brandt cl
Bengt Hansson tb
Erling Rasmussen p
Erling Lindhardt bj
Stefan Kärfve b
Claus Lindhardt dr

FRED VIGORITO, Cornet, Guilford Ct: Fred is a full time musician, having retired from the Telephone company in 1995.  He has been playing New Orleans Jazz since 1963 when he joined Big Bill Bissonnette's Easy Rider Jazz Band.  Fred, a former Connecticut all-state first-trumpeter, is featured on more than 35 recordings, his most memorable being a 1965 GHB recording at Preservation Hall with Jazz veterans Jim Robinson, Albert Burbank, Creole George Guesno, Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavajeau and Don Ewell.  Fred also recorded with Jazz veterans George Lewis, Kid Thomas, Emanuel Paul, Sammy Rimington and Louis Nelson.  Fred plays a hot, driving cornet style, with a clear, defined lead.  Major influences include Louis Armstrong, Kid Thomas, Kid Howard, Wild Bill Davison, Bobby Hackett, Muggsy Spanier, Ruby Braff and Thomas Jefferson.  Fred has lead the Galvanized Jazz Band, Connecticut's #1 Jazz Band, since 1971!  He also travels to Europe as a featured guest performer with JP Alessi's French Preservation New Orleans Jazz Band and other European Jazz bands as well.

30. Oct. 2011
Long John Jazzklub
Charlie Scott´s
Skindergade 43
1159 Copenhagen
Denmark

info@charliescotts.dk
http://jazzkjeld.typepad.com/neworleansdelight