For more than seven decades, the legendary Bucky Pizzarelli has had a stellar career. “The complete jazz musician”, he was a fixture in jazz and the studios since the early ‘50s. The list of big bands and vocalists with whom Bucky has performed and recorded reads like a veritable Who’s Who of Jazz. One of the era’s most solid rhythm players, Pizzarelli was in high demand, playing and touring with Benny Goodman, Zoot Sims, Bud Freeman, and Stephane Grappelli, and, later, recording with George Van Eps, Carl Kress and George Barnes. His superior mastery of the seven-string guitar is unparalleled. The beloved guitarist has developed a very personal style that sets him apart. He lives in Saddle River, New Jersey, with his wife of nearly 70 years, Ruth.
“…moves effortlessly from the daunting format of the solo guitar to playing solid, swinging rhythm and single string solos…”
Bucky has performed at the Miner Benedetto Wine Release Concerts in Napa Valley since 2005
THANK YOU, BUCKY, FOR BEING A BENEDETTO PLAYER (OUR FIRST!) SINCE 1978 – 37 YEARS!
August 2013 – Bucky Pizzarelli “The Pizzarelli Patriarch Still Swings at 87” by Dave Beck for kuow.org.
Fabulous new interview on Bucky by George Cole! (Oct 2011)
Bucky with Al Caiola at Cutting Room
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