Joe Grauso

Joe Grauso spent the initial four decades from the 20th hundred years playing in only about every concievable circumstance where drums or percussion may be allowed. Just like the German percussionist Paul Lovens, Grauso acquired a history in accounting and book-keeping, an excellent talent to possess in the penny-pinching music business and in Grauso’s case an job he could fall back again on every once in awhile if possibilities for his drumming abilities dropped off. He started carrying out in 1914 alongside pianist Frank Signorelli and in the second option half of the 10 years was drumming beneath the big the surface of the circus, in roaming carnivals and with different brass rings. In 1918 Grauso shaped his personal group, the Happy Five Melody Young boys, which spent a yr carrying out at a Brooklyn cabaret. Until a sickness in the past due ’30s, the drummer held himself used in vaudeville theatres, developing flashy paradiddles to match dancers, comedians and jugglers. Accounting became a kind of recuperation aswell as employment, a rest from carting drum instances and keeping the night time hours of the vaudeville revue. Musically he was back action in the first ’40s as an accompanist towards the good pianist Artwork Hodes. Grauso was also influenced to place his personal group collectively to function a Forest Hillsides, New Jersey, golf club for quite some time. During the last years of the next World Battle he was among the mainstay players at Nick’s, a popular trad jazz location, performing and documenting with Miff Mole, Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier while others. In the past due ’40s he became a member of an organization led by Billy Butterfield. His boy Robert Grauso also takes on drums.