John Cocuzzi, the Glossary
John Cocuzzi (born 1964) is an American jazz, blues, and swing musician who specializes in the vibraphone and piano, as well as drums.[1]
Table of Contents
56 relations: Alexandria, Virginia, Arbors Records, Barbara Morrison, Barrett Deems, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Maher, Billy Butterfield, Blues, Bob Seeley, Bob Wilber, Boogie-woogie, Bucky Pizzarelli, Butch Miles, Chuck Redd, Colorado, Dan Barrett (jazz musician), Denver, Dick Hyman, Earl King, Eddie Locke, Erroll Garner, Fats Waller, Floyd Dixon, George Masso, Harry Allen (musician), Houston Person, Howard Alden, Jake Hanna, Jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy McCracklin, Joe Wilder, John Pizzarelli, John Sheridan (jazz), Johnny Frigo, Johnny Varro, Keter Betts, Lionel Hampton, Louie Bellson, Marshal Royal, Maryland, Meade Lux Lewis, Milt Hinton, Nat King Cole, NPR, Peter Appleyard, Professor Longhair, Red Holloway, Red Norvo, Russell Malone, ... Expand index (6 more) »
- Jazz vibraphonists
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.
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Arbors Records
Arbors Records is a record company and independent record label in Clearwater, Florida.
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Barbara Morrison
Barbara Morrison (September 10, 1949 – March 16, 2022) was an American jazz singer.
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Barrett Deems
Barrett Deems (March 1, 1914 – September 15, 1998) was an American swing drummer from Springfield, Illinois.
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Benny Goodman
Benjamin David Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".
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Big Joe Maher
Joseph W. Maher (born), known as Big Joe Maher, is an American electric blues drummer, singer and songwriter.
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Billy Butterfield
Charles William Butterfield (January 14, 1917 – March 18, 1988) was an American jazz bandleader, trumpeter, flugelhornist, and cornetist.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
Bob Seeley
Bob Seeley (born September 13, 1928, Detroit, Michigan) is an American boogie woogie pianist. John Cocuzzi and bob Seeley are American blues pianists.
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Bob Wilber
Robert Sage Wilber (March 15, 1928 – August 4, 2019) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader. John Cocuzzi and Bob Wilber are Arbors Records artists.
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Boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since the 1870s.
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Bucky Pizzarelli
John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli (January 9, 1926 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz guitarist. John Cocuzzi and Bucky Pizzarelli are Arbors Records artists.
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Butch Miles
Charles J. Thornton, Jr. (July 4, 1944 – February 2, 2023), known professionally as Butch Miles, was an American jazz drummer.
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Chuck Redd
Chuck Redd (born September 10, 1958) is an American jazz drummer and vibraphonist. John Cocuzzi and Chuck Redd are American jazz vibraphonists and Arbors Records artists.
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Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Dan Barrett (jazz musician)
Dan Barrett (born December 14, 1955, in Pasadena, California) is an American arranger, cornetist, and trombonist. John Cocuzzi and Dan Barrett (jazz musician) are Arbors Records artists.
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Denver
Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.
Dick Hyman
Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer. John Cocuzzi and Dick Hyman are Arbors Records artists.
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Earl King
Earl Silas Johnson IV (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003), known as Earl King, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in blues music.
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Eddie Locke
Eddie Locke (August 2, 1930 – September 7, 2009) was an American jazz drummer.
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Erroll Garner
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads.
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Fats Waller
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and singer.
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Floyd Dixon
Floyd Dixon (February 8, 1929 – July 26, 2006) was an American rhythm-and-blues pianist and singer. John Cocuzzi and Floyd Dixon are American blues pianists and American male pianists.
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George Masso
George Masso (November 17, 1926 – October 22, 2019) was an American jazz trombonist, bandleader, vibraphonist, and composer specializing in swing and Dixieland. John Cocuzzi and George Masso are American jazz vibraphonists, Arbors Records artists and jazz vibraphonists.
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Harry Allen (musician)
Harry Allen (born October 12, 1966) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist born in Washington, D.C. Allen plays maintream jazz and bossa nova. John Cocuzzi and Harry Allen (musician) are Arbors Records artists.
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Houston Person
Houston Person (born November 10, 1934) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer.
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Howard Alden
Howard Vincent Alden (born October 17, 1958) is an American jazz guitarist born in Newport Beach, California. John Cocuzzi and Howard Alden are Arbors Records artists.
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Jake Hanna
Jake Hanna (April 4, 1931 – February 12, 2010) was an American jazz drummer. John Cocuzzi and Jake Hanna are Arbors Records artists.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (Lemott, later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent.
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Jimmy McCracklin
James David Walker Jr. (August 13, 1921 – December 20, 2012), better known by his stage name Jimmy McCracklin, was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. John Cocuzzi and Jimmy McCracklin are American male pianists.
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Joe Wilder
Joseph Benjamin Wilder (February 22, 1922 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
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John Pizzarelli
John Paul Pizzarelli Jr. (born April 6, 1960) is an American jazz guitarist and vocalist.
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John Sheridan (jazz)
John Sheridan (January 20, 1946 – August 24, 2021) was an American jazz pianist and arranger born in Columbus, Ohio, perhaps best known for his work with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. John Cocuzzi and John Sheridan (jazz) are Arbors Records artists.
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Johnny Frigo
Johnny Frigo (December 27, 1916 – July 4, 2007) was an American jazz violinist, bassist and songwriter. John Cocuzzi and Johnny Frigo are American jazz musicians and Arbors Records artists.
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Johnny Varro
Johnny Varro (born 1930) is a pianist with roots in the swing style of jazz. John Cocuzzi and Johnny Varro are Arbors Records artists.
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Keter Betts
William Thomas "Keter" Betts (July 22, 1928 – August 6, 2005) was an American jazz double bassist.
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Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. John Cocuzzi and Lionel Hampton are American jazz vibraphonists and jazz vibraphonists.
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Louie Bellson
Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer.
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Marshal Royal
Marshal Walton Royal Jr. (December 5, 1912 – May 8, 1995) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist best known for his work with Count Basie, with whose band he played for nearly twenty years.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Meade Lux Lewis
Anderson Meade "Lux" Lewis (September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964) was an American pianist and composer, remembered for his playing in the boogie-woogie style. John Cocuzzi and Meade Lux Lewis are American blues pianists.
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Milt Hinton
Milton John Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000) was an American double bassist and photographer.
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Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Peter Appleyard
Peter Appleyard, (26 August 1928 – 17 July 2013) was a British–Canadian jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer.
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Professor Longhair
Henry Roeland "Roy" Byrd (December 19, 1918 – January 30, 1980), better known as Professor Longhair or "Fess" for short, was an American singer and pianist who performed New Orleans blues. John Cocuzzi and Professor Longhair are American blues pianists and American male pianists.
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Red Holloway
James Wesley "Red" Holloway (May 31, 1927 – February 25, 2012) was an American jazz saxophonist.
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Red Norvo
Red Norvo (born Kenneth Norville; March 31, 1908 – April 6, 1999) was an American musician, one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr. John Cocuzzi and Red Norvo are American jazz vibraphonists and jazz vibraphonists.
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Russell Malone
Russell Malone (born November 8, 1963) is an American jazz guitarist.
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Skitch Henderson
Lyle Russel "Skitch" Henderson (January 27, 1918 – November 1, 2005) was an American pianist, conductor, and composer. John Cocuzzi and Skitch Henderson are American male pianists and Arbors Records artists.
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Snooky Young
Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young (February 3, 1919 – May 11, 2011) was an American jazz trumpeter.
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Swing music
Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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Vibraphone
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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See also
Jazz vibraphonists
- Bobby Hutcherson
- Cal Tjader
- Christos Rafalides
- Don Elliott
- Eddie Costa
- Fats Sadi
- Francesc Burrull
- Frits Landesbergen
- George Masso
- Gregg Bendian
- Jason Adasiewicz
- Jerzy Milian
- John Cocuzzi
- Jorge Rossy
- Karl Berger
- Lars Erstrand
- Lionel Hampton
- Margie Hyams
- Mattias Ståhl
- Milt Jackson
- Mulatu Astatke
- Paolo Conte
- Pascal Schumacher
- Red Norvo
- Roy Ayers
- Stefon Harris
- Teddy Charles
- Terry Pollard
- Tommy Vig
- Ulf Linde
- Vera Auer
- Walt Dickerson
- Werner Pirchner
- Yuhan Su
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cocuzzi
Also known as Cocuzzi, John.
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