Biography
An excellent swing-oriented tenor saxophonist, Ventura is best-remembered for his attempt at popularizing bebop through the tail end from the music’s mid- to past due-’40s heyday. Given birth to Charles Venturo, he originated from a big, musically inclined family members. His first device was C-melody sax. He turned to alto before ultimately buying tenor. Ventura remaining his day work in the Philadelphia Navy Backyard in 1942 to become listed on Gene Krupa’s music group. He became a presented soloist with Krupa, using the drummer from 1942-1943 and 1944-1946 (employed in the interim with guitarist/bandleader Teddy Powell). Ventura accomplished considerable recognition while with Krupa, earning a Down Defeat magazine honor as greatest tenor saxophonist in 1945. He began his personal big music group in 1946 with middling outcomes. He had even more success fronting a little music group, one version which included trumpeter Conte Candoli, trombonist Bennie Green, alto saxophonist Shoes Mussulli, drummer Ed Shaughnessy, and vocalists Jackie Cain and Roy Kral. Ventura documented for small brands before getting authorized to RCA Victor, which at that time wished to capitalize around the introduction of bebop. An RCA professional purportedly informed him which they wanted the term “bop” within the band’s name. Ventura developed the term “Bop for individuals,” which implied an available type of the music. Ventura created a big music group in 1948, but quickly cut it right down to eight users, keeping Cain and Kral, who have been crucial the different parts of the band’s audio. The Bop for individuals music group worked well through 1949 (where time Ventura utilized modern jazz’s ideal saxophonist, Charlie Parker, on an archive date), however in the finish Ventura’s stab at creating a industrial achievement of bop failed. Certainly, as fine a new player as he was, Ventura himself was hardly ever really a bopper. Through the early ’50s Ventura led another big music group; shaped an extremely acclaimed group known as the Big Four with bassist Chubby Jackson, drummer Pal Affluent, and pianist Marty Napoleon; briefly went his own evening membership in Philadelphia; and in addition worked once again with Cain and Kral. Ventura’s wellness was not the very best, however he continued to utilize Krupa in to the ’60s. Following the ’50s, Ventura documented commercially only one time (in 1977, with pianist John Number for the Famous Door label). Still, he continued to be active. He proved helpful in NEVADA (with comedian Jackie Gleason), and fronted different groups within the ’70s and ’80s, before dying of lung tumor in 1992.
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1 | Saxophonist with the Gene Krupa Orchestra who formed his own bebop-oriented big band in 1946, featuring arrangements by Neal Hefti. The band was short-lived, however, and Ventura eventually opened a jazz club in New Jersey, as well as fronting various orchestras in Atlantic City and a swinging quartet in Springfield, Massachusetts. |
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin | 2005 | performer: "Tammy's Dream" 1946 |
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Adventures in Jazz | 1949 | TV Series | Himself |
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