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Marsalis and the three members of his band, pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, will play heartrending ballads from their most recent CD, “Eternal...
...earlier on a convenient charge of loan-sharking, with bail set at $1 million. Federal officials believe that he murdered Jack Molinas, 43, a gambling figure and porn-film distributor who was found shot in the head in his Hollywood Hills home in August 1975. The other victim: Vincent Calderazzo, a New York Mafia soldier whose bones were discovered by hikers in a shallow desert grave near Victorville, Calif., in March. Both were killed with...
...story behind the Calderazzo killing was apparently more complicated. Investigators say that it involved an old associate of Ullo's from his New York City days: Manhattan Mobster Vincent ("Chin") Gigante, a power in the Mob family once headed by Vito Genovese. Calderazzo worked in Gigante's gambling network. Following a 1976 FBI raid on his operation, Gigante suspected he had been betrayed by Calderazzo and ordered him to Los Angeles-ostensibly for his own protection...
...Calderazzo's sojourn soon ended at Ullo's San Fernando Valley home. The FBI's two other witnesses, Robert Zander, 28, and Craig Petzold, 32, say that they were working at Ullo's place when they heard screams from a guesthouse. Minutes later, they said, Ullo summoned them to the house, where they saw Calderazzo's body. They testified that Ullo gave Zander a .22 automatic with instructions that it be delivered to Connor. Then the pair were ordered to dump Calderazzo's body in the desert, where it became fodder for scavenging animals...
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