Instruments Saxophone Role Record Producer Name Dave Pell | Years active 1940s–present | |
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Occupation(s) saxophonist, bandleader Albums Jazz Goes Dancing (Prom to Prom) Similar People | ||
Associated acts The Dave Pell Octet | ||
The Dave Pell Octet - Would You Like to Take a Walk (with Tommy Tedesco on guitar)
David Pell (February 26, 1925 – May 7, 2017) was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader. He was best known for leading a cool jazz octet in the 1950s.
Contents
- The Dave Pell Octet Would You Like to Take a Walk with Tommy Tedesco on guitar
- The dave pell octet by the river sainte marie with tommy tedesco on guitar
- Biography
- Personal life
- As leader
- As sideman
- References
The dave pell octet by the river sainte marie with tommy tedesco on guitar
Biography
Pell first played in his teens with the big bands of Tony Pastor, Bob Astor, and Bobby Sherwood, and then moved to California in the middle of the 1940s. There he played on Bob Crosby's radio show in 1946, and was a member of Les Brown's band from 1947 to 1955.
In 1953, he began working with his own ensembles, mostly as an octet: Pell on tenor sax, another saxophone (either a baritone or an alto), trumpet and trombone, guitar, and a piano-bass-drums rhythm section). Among the octet players were Pepper Adams, Benny Carter, Mel Lewis, Red Mitchell, Marty Paich, Art Pepper and, early his career, John Williams. These ensembles recorded in the 1950s for Atlantic, Kapp, Coral, Capitol, and RCA Victor; alongside this, he played as a sideman for Shorty Rogers,