Phil Urso
Phil Urso (2 October 1925, Jersey City, New Jersey — 7 April 2008, Denver, Colorado) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer known for his association with trumpeter Chet Baker. Urso learned clarinet as a child and switched to tenor sax while in high school. He served in the Navy during World War II and then moved to New York City in 1947. There he played with Elliot Lawrence (1948–50), Woody Herman (1950-51), Terry Gibbs, Miles Davis (1952), Oscar Pettiford (1953), Jimmy Dorsey, and Bob Brookmeyer (1954). In 1955, he first began working with Chet Baker, and was a prominent contributor to Baker's Pacific Jazz releases in 1956. Urso and Baker would collaborate sporadically for some 30 years. Urso worked with Claude Thornhill late in the 1950s, but receded from national attention in later decades. He moved to Denver and continued performing locally into the 2000s. |
Birth and Death Data: Born October 2, 1925 (Jersey City), Died April 7, 2008 (Denver)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1950 - 1957
Roles Represented in DAHR: tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute
= Recordings are available for online listening.
= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.
Recordings (Results 26-29 of 29 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Decca | 101507 | 1/30/1957 | The prisoner's song | Louis Armstrong | instrumentalist, flute, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 101508 | 1/30/1957 | Goodnight angel | Louis Armstrong | instrumentalist, flute, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 101509 | 1/30/1957 | I'll string along with you | Louis Armstrong | instrumentalist, flute, alto saxophone | |||
Decca | 101510 | 1/30/1957 | And the angels sing | Louis Armstrong | instrumentalist, flute, alto saxophone |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Urso, Phil," accessed November 12, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/210394.
Urso, Phil. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 12, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/210394.
"Urso, Phil." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 12 November 2024.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
External Sources
Wikipedia: Phil Urso
Discogs: Phil Urso
Allmusic: Phil Urso
Grove: Phil Urso
IMDb: Phil Urso
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Urso, Phil - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80097116
Wikidata: Phil Urso - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q354847
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/120071315
MusicBrainz: Phil Urso - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/385a094f-f4c5-4d61-bc69-23df4197aeb7
ISNI: 0000 0001 1557 6051 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000115576051
Wikipedia content provided under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-SA license
Feedback
Send the Editors a message about this record.