Capp/Pierce Juggernaut Band

In 1975 American big band drummer Frank Capp (b. Frank Cappuccio, 20 August 1931, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA), briefly overran the responsibilities of Nat Pierce (b. 16 July 1925, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, d. 10 June 1992, LA, California, USA), as service provider for the Neal Hefti Orchestra. Once the music group abruptly folded, Capp was remaining with an engagement, that the golf club owner asked him to supply an alternative music group. Capp created the group from leading western coast session males and made a decision to use the event like a tribute to Hefti’s great organizing abilities. A disagreement with Hefti resulted in Capp getting in touch with Pierce, whose personal organizing talents experienced graced the bandbooks of both Woody Herman and Count number Basie. Using Pierce’s Basie-style graphs and with the pianist as his co-leader, the music group was an excellent success; they started to perform even more and eventually had been heard by article writer Leonard Feather, who headlined his newspapers content: ‘A Juggernaut On Basie Road’. Renaming their music group appropriately, Capp and Pierce produced records, the to begin which offered well, and continuing to operate whenever and wherever they might, focusing on Basie-style materials played with tremendous zest and excitement, but also showing great versatility once the event demanded. Regrettably, the collective staff make it a music group far too costly ever to tour. One of the personnel have already been Expenses Berry, Bobby Shew, Marshal Royal, Blue Mitchell, Plant Ellis, Chuck Berghofer and Richie Kamuca, as the singers who’ve worked and occasionally recorded using the music group have already been Ernie Andrews, Joe Williams, Ernestine Anderson and Nancy Wilson. Still led by Capp, the Juggernaut offers demonstrated sufficiently well founded to survive Pierce’s loss of life in 1992.