Cal Poly Jazz Band featuring Lee Secard & Sal Cracchiolo - The Admiral (Lee Secard 2010)

Due to Illness, Dr Kopplin was not able to lead the Band, so he has asked some of his famous friends to sub for him. Tonight is Lee Secard and Sal Cracchiolo (without his wife Melanie Jackson -- oh well).

Renown saxophonist Lee Secard isactive as a performer, having appeared with Maynard Ferguson, Bill Watrous, Jack Sheldon, Buddy Collette, The Luckman Jazz Orchestra, Bobby Caldwell, Ladd McIndtosh, Tim Davies, Brian Setzer, Mike Barone, Les hooper, Terry Gibbs, and many others. He is a Composer and Arranger and is the Director of Jazz Studies and Instructor of Saxophone at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles http://www.colburnschool.edu/sec2/14.html His most recent recording, Radio Improved, will be released Summer 2010.

Renown trumpeter Sal Cracchiolo started working as a professional musician at age 15 and in 1975 started a long musical relationship with Poncho Sanchez, which led to 18 albums, three of were Grammy nominees and one album, Latin Soul, that won. He has toured worldwide for 20 years. He has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Shew, Cal Tjader, Stanley Turentine, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Clair Fischer, Gary Foster, Arturo Sandoval, Eddie Harris, Francisco Aquabella, and Celia Cruz., as well as orldwide tours with Tom Jones, Vikki Carr, Brian Setzer, and Greg Adams. With his wife Melanie Jackson, he recorded Fly and was nominated for a Latin Grammy. http://www.myspace.com/salcracchioloampmelaniejackson
In addition, Sal has played on such movie soundtracks as The Mambo Kings, The HBO Cinema Lain Session and Million to Juan. From the Cal Poly Pomona Music Publicity Department 2010

This video is an original chart composed by Lee Secard in tribute to one of his mentors, the Legendary Jack "The Admiral" Nimitz. In the spirit and style of the Oliver Nelson Orchestra, Lee Secard weaves measures and harmonies that Jack Nimitz would use. Notably, in 1995 he (Jack Nimitz) released his first album under his own name. The Jack Nimitz Quintet played their final performance on May 10, 2009, in Northridge, California. Nimitz died aged 79 from complications from emphysema in Studio City, Los Angeles, California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nimitz from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Along with the Featured Artists solos, guitarist Bradford "The Truth" Isaaq Tidwell opens the Chart and provides a unifying thread for the many pieces. Drummer Joseph Estrada provides the trap set solo.
I apologize for the Sal Cracchiolo solo views but I was trying to get them around the ebullient Lee Secard. Oh well, it happens!

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