Wally Cirillo

Pianist and composer Wally Cirillo was quite dynamic being a performer and saving artist through the ’50s and ’60s. He participated within a concert distributed by the Jazz Composers’ Workshop with Teo Macero and Charles Mingus through the middle-’50s. Cirillo caused several music artists after shifting to Southern Florida in the first ’60s, included in this Ira Sullivan, Turn Phillips, and Phil Napoleon. He constructed many orchestral and digital works, and trained university classes in jazz piano and improvisation. His most significant documenting was as mind of the quartet that included Macero and Mingus in 1955. The time, reputed to support the initial jazz composition predicated on a 12-build row, has frequently been released under Mingus’ name, but was also contained in the collection entitled Explorations by Teo Macero and Wally Cirillo, released by the new Sound label in 2006. Furthermore, Cirillo documented some duet albums within the ’70s with Joe Diorio.