Johnny Frigo

Johnny Frigo has really had two professions. He began playing violin in sentence structure college and after switching to tuba to be able to perform in his junior senior high school music group, he used the bass. Frigo began playing professionally like a bassist in 1934 and experienced some low-profile careers until becoming a member of Jimmy Dorsey in the middle-’40s. In 1947, he created a trio with guitarist Plant Ellis and pianist Lou Carter, known as Soft Winds, that was well-known for a couple of years; they co-wrote “Detour Forward” and “I Informed Ya I REALLY LIKE Ya, Now Obtain Out.” Following the group disbanded in the first ’50s, Frigo became a studio room bassist in Chicago for many years, playing classes, jingles, and golf club times. Although Frigo experienced a chance to record an recording on violin in 1957 for Mercury, it had been not really until 1988 that he came back to his 1st instrument, guesting on the Plant Ellis Justice Compact disc and leading two superb and swinging times of his personal for Chesky that place him close to the best of his field.