Wilbert Baranco

Wilbert Baranco had a popularity among his fellow music artists as an excellent pianist and a high bandleader, although he was never popular to the general public. He created a pursuing in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA area being a pianist and being a bandleader in the ’30s and ’40s — although he educated being a pilot first of World Battle II, he hardly ever served in homogeneous, and led rings throughout the battle, included in this Wilbert Baranco & His Tempo Bombardiers as well as the Wilbert Baranco Trio. His house served as a means station for going to jazz musicians, with onetime or another he previously such legends as Artwork Tatum yet others playing (or asleep) under his roofing. Baranco never appreciated a long-term documenting agreement, and his musical popularity survives in the recollections of better-known contemporaries as well as the relative couple of radio airchecks which have been released commercially, principally by Hindsight. Baranco led in the piano, and his rings in the middle-’40s included such luminaries was Snooky Youthful, Jackie “Kelso” Kelson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charles Mingus.