Glenn Zottola "Life In Jazz" Episode 1

This is the first of  collaborations with great Brazilian guitarist Romero Lubambo and Pamela Driggs of a beautiful Chick Corea composition.

Glenn Zottola, born in Port Chester, New York, is an American jazz trumpeter and saxophonist.  Zottola is known for his work with Lionel Hampton, the Benny Goodman Sextet and Bob Wilber, and has played for a broad range of vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson , Tony Bennett , Mel Torme , Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. He has recorded over 50 albums, performed at major jazz festivals throughout the world, and was a featured soloist at Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall 50th Anniversary in 1988. In 1995, Zottola was band leader on the Suzanne Somers daytime TV Talk Show at Universal Studios.  Recently he has recorded a series of albums on the Music Minus One record label and Classic Jazz record label paying tribute to jazz legends including Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown and Ben Webster.  The most recent album, Glenn Zottola "A Jazz Life," is a 2 CD anthology of selected tracks with many celebrities including Chick Corea, Suzanne Somers and many more.

Glenn Zottola, born in Port Chester, New York, is an American jazz trumpeter and saxophonist.  Zottola is known for his work with Lionel Hampton, the Benny Goodman Sextet and Bob Wilber, and has played for a broad range of vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson , Tony Bennett , Mel Torme , Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. He has recorded over 50 albums, performed at major jazz festivals throughout the world, and was a featured soloist at Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall 50th Anniversary in 1988. In 1995, Zottola was band leader on the Suzanne Somers daytime TV Talk Show at Universal Studios.  Recently he has recorded a series of albums on the Music Minus One record label and Classic Jazz record label paying tribute to jazz legends including Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown and Ben Webster.  The most recent album, Glenn Zottola "A Jazz Life," is a 2 CD anthology of selected tracks with many celebrities including Chick Corea, Suzanne Somers and many more.

As part of my podcast series on passing down what was passed down to me by those jazz legends and great singers no longer here I will continue to do recordings to demonstrate that so this begins season 2 on playing the melody. This beautiful arrangement was done by my good friend Alan McPike in Scotland and mixed by my good friend Bob Magnuson.

Glenn Zottola, born in Port Chester, New York, is an American jazz trumpeter and saxophonist.  Zottola is known for his work with Lionel Hampton, the Benny Goodman Sextet and Bob Wilber, and has played for a broad range of vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson , Tony Bennett , Mel Torme , Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. He has recorded over 50 albums, performed at major jazz festivals throughout the world, and was a featured soloist at Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall 50th Anniversary in 1988. In 1995, Zottola was band leader on the Suzanne Somers daytime TV Talk Show at Universal Studios.  Recently he has recorded a series of albums on the Music Minus One record label and Classic Jazz record label paying tribute to jazz legends including Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown and Ben Webster.  The most recent album, Glenn Zottola "A Jazz Life," is a 2 CD anthology of selected tracks with many celebrities including Chick Corea, Suzanne Somers and many more.

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Glenn Zottola, born in Port Chester, New York, is an American jazz trumpeter and saxophonist.  Zottola is known for his work with Lionel Hampton, the Benny Goodman Sextet and Bob Wilber, and has played for a broad range of vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson , Tony Bennett , Mel Torme , Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. He has recorded over 50 albums, performed at major jazz festivals throughout the world, and was a featured soloist at Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall 50th Anniversary in 1988. In 1995, Zottola was band leader on the Suzanne Somers daytime TV Talk Show at Universal Studios.  Recently he has recorded a series of albums on the Music Minus One record label and Classic Jazz record label paying tribute to jazz legends including Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown and Ben Webster.  The most recent album, Glenn Zottola "A Jazz Life," is a 2 CD anthology of selected tracks with many celebrities including Chick Corea, Suzanne Somers and many more.

Glenn Zottola, born in Port Chester, New York, is an American jazz trumpeter and saxophonist.  Zottola is known for his work with Lionel Hampton, the Benny Goodman Sextet and Bob Wilber, and has played for a broad range of vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson , Tony Bennett , Mel Torme , Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. He has recorded over 50 albums, performed at major jazz festivals throughout the world, and was a featured soloist at Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall 50th Anniversary in 1988. In 1995, Zottola was band leader on the Suzanne Somers daytime TV Talk Show at Universal Studios.  Recently he has recorded a series of albums on the Music Minus One record label and Classic Jazz record label paying tribute to jazz legends including Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown and Ben Webster.  The most recent album, Glenn Zottola "A Jazz Life," is a 2 CD anthology of selected tracks with many celebrities including Chick Corea, Suzanne Somers and many more.

Glenn Zottola, born in Port Chester, New York, is an American jazz trumpeter and saxophonist.  Zottola is known for his work with Lionel Hampton, the Benny Goodman Sextet and Bob Wilber, and has played for a broad range of vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson , Tony Bennett , Mel Torme , Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. He has recorded over 50 albums, performed at major jazz festivals throughout the world, and was a featured soloist at Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall 50th Anniversary in 1988. In 1995, Zottola was band leader on the Suzanne Somers daytime TV Talk Show at Universal Studios.  Recently he has recorded a series of albums on the Music Minus One record label and Classic Jazz record label paying tribute to jazz legends including Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown and Ben Webster.  The most recent album, Glenn Zottola "A Jazz Life," is a 2 CD anthology of selected tracks with many celebrities including Chick Corea, Suzanne Somers and many more.

Glenn Zottola, born in Port Chester, New York, is an American jazz trumpeter and saxophonist.  Zottola is known for his work with Lionel Hampton, the Benny Goodman Sextet and Bob Wilber, and has played for a broad range of vocalists, including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson , Tony Bennett , Mel Torme , Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Williams. He has recorded over 50 albums, performed at major jazz festivals throughout the world, and was a featured soloist at Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall 50th Anniversary in 1988. In 1995, Zottola was band leader on the Suzanne Somers daytime TV Talk Show at Universal Studios.  Recently he has recorded a series of albums on the Music Minus One record label and Classic Jazz record label paying tribute to jazz legends including Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, Clifford Brown and Ben Webster.  The most recent album, Glenn Zottola "A Jazz Life," is a 2 CD anthology of selected tracks with many celebrities including Chick Corea, Suzanne Somers and many more.

More on Episode 1 regarding the 3 things I learned from the jazz legends in music :

1. make it swing

2. try to tell a story not just notes

3. create some beauty

In this new series of Podcast I am going to attempt to talk about how I approach jazz. Being a total ear player and having never thought and learned from osmosis about it I am now going to try to put in words what i learned from the jazz legends of the "golden age".

These are a collage of movies soundtracks I did when I first moved to Los Angeles.