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Joe Tarto
Joe Tarto is credited on 199 releases across 48 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1953–2018 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
199
Pressings credited
48
Albums
7
Decades active
4
In collections
Biography
Joe Tarto (February 22, 1902 - August 24, 1986) was an American jazz tubist and bassist. Tarto (born Vincent Joseph Tortoriello) played trombone from age 12 before settling on tuba as a teenager. He played in an Army band in World War I, where he was wounded, and received his release in 1919. In the 1920s he worked with Cliff Edwards, Paul Specht, Sam Lanin, and Vincent Lopez, in addition to doing arrangement work for Fletcher Henderson and Chick Webb and playing in pit orchestras on Broadway. He also recorded copiously throughout the 1920s, accompanying musicians including Bing Crosby, The Boswell Sisters, Ethel Waters, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Miff Mole, Red Nichols, The Dorsey Brothers, Bix Beiderbecke, and Phil Napoleon. In the 1930s he spent to years playing with Roger Wolfe Kahn, then worked extensively as a session musician both on tuba and double bass. He also played with radio ensembles and in theater and symphony orchestras. He remained active as a performer into the 1980s, playing in Dixieland jazz revival groups in his last years.
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Credited work
199 releases · 48 albums · active 1953–2018
- Performance · 428
- Other credits · 6
Studios: Dex Studios · Boonsboro Country Club · Acoustic Barn Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Ethel Waters
- Red Nichols
- Ruth Etting
- The Boswell Sisters
- Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti
- Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
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