| Mark,
1977 puts you in some very fine company in the pages of the Calicchio registration book. But as I look thru other years, this one year does not seem very different from the caliber of player that appear before and after this " 1977 time capsule " snapshot. Here's some of the players that bought a Calicchio made in 1977.
Jerry Hey - 1s/2
Walt Johnson - 1s/9
Gary Grant - 1s/2
Clark Terry - 1s/9
Steve Madiao - 1s/2
Chuck Schmidt ( buddy rich lead at the time ) 1s/2
John Thomas 1s/7
Don Thomas 1s/7s , 1s/2
Johnny Zell ( Lawrence Welk fame ) 1s/7
Nolan Smith 1s/7
Jerry Callet 3/9 LB
Joe Rodriquez 1s/2
Carlton Macbeth 1s/7
Oscar Braschear - 3/2
Sakatao Watanabe - 1s/7s
Bob Clark ( Anka Lead player 3 years ) 1s/7
Mike Barone 1s/7
Dean Pratt 1s/7
Jack Laughbach ( Carol Burnett show / Ray Anthony lead trpt ) 1s/9
Ron Tooley ( thad and mel ) 1s/7
Karl Seiver 1s/2
John Madrid ( Buddy Rich, Wayne Newton ) 1s/2 later changed to #7
Mike Price ( Buddy Rich / Toshiko ) 1s/2s
Jimmy Maxwell 2/2
Lee Thornberg 3/7
Rich Cooper ( Buddy Rich, Bette Midler ) 1s/2
Mark Underwood ( Bette Midler ) 1s/7
Waymon Reed ( Basie ) 1s/9
Russ Konikoff ( Buddy, Woody ) 1s/2
Sonny Cohn ( Basie ) 2/2
Don Smith ( Les Brown lead trpt ) 2/2
and of course TM's own
Mark Manda who was living in the thriving metropolis of Bakersfield California at the time.
Also, if these records were better kept, their may have been more well known players from different parts of the country noted in the register.
Back then, when a dealer ( private dealers, not stores ) would get a batch of trumpets,( 4 or 5 ) the trumpet player that the trumpet was sold to was not recorded, just the dealers name , so really only players buying out of Dominic's Hollywood shop would find their names in the official registry.
That's why John Duda wants to re-register the trumpets to the current owners. Who knows what names would have been recorded out of Texas, Chicago, New York, England, Germany and Australia if more care would have been taken to get the final destination for these instruments. Also, for alto of these players, this is not the only time there names grace the pages of Dominic's book. Multiple Calicchio's have been purchased by most of these players in different years.
Here's an example
Jerry Hey's name appears 4 times, Gary Grant has 4 entry's, Charley Davis has 3 , and Walt Johnson has 3. , just to name a few.
Note: Looks like Dominic put out about 125 trumpets that year and you know what comes to me after looking at this years sales ( 1977 ) and the years before and after comes to mind. Can you name any other trumpet manufacturer that has the kind of clientèle of professional players that Calicchio trumpets has had. You might say Bach with it's 37 and 72 model has a fine rooster of pro players and you would be right, but think of the percentage of trumpets made by Bach to trumpet used by pro's and I think Calicchio has the most impressive clientèle from 1960 on. ( 1960 was just a arbitrary year to start with ) There are players in this book ( including more from 1977 ) that you may recognize. but without sounding too pompous but more with a sense of pride about Calicchio's - does any other company boost this type of player/clientele in it's ranks. ( Besides Bach, lets say )
Not bad for an Italian immigrant , raised in an orphanage , that never finished High School.
Larry |