Word: trombonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astonished Moscow critic last spring, "Ricci was designed by nature to play the violin." Ricci himself gives part credit for his style to his "Latin descent," is embarrassed that his passport still identifies him as Woodrow Wilson Rich, a name he picked up at birth after his onetime-trombonist father had decided to Anglicize the family name. Woodrow Wilson was presented with his first violin when he was five. When he was eight, he was told that the old family name better suited a violinist; an alliterative Ruggiero was tacked on just to make the switch complete...
...Dukes are headed by two brothers from New Orleans: Frank and Fred Assunto. Trumpeter Frank, 28, and Trombonist Fred, 30, learned to play from their father, a onetime high school music teacher and now a regular member of the seven-man band (trombone and banjo). Too young to hear original Dixieland, the brothers listened to the New Orleans greats on records, played on weekends (for $3 a night) in pickup combos, formed their first band while they were still in high school. Their recent success they owe chiefly,to records: Audio Fidelity has issued eleven fast-selling albums...