Bucky Pizzarelli

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Bucky Pizzarelli is a living jazz guitar legend. His sixty plus years as a figure on the jazz scene have garnered the guitarist player some the highest praise in the industry. Born John Pizzarelli in 1926 in Paterson, New Jersey, he began his professional career in 1943 at 17 playing in the Vaughn Monroe dance band.

In 1952 he joined NBC as a staff musician playing for many years in the Doc Severinsen Band on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He also toured and recorded with Benny Goodman until his death in 1986 and performed at both the Regan and Clinton White House.
ver the last half century Bucky has recorded, collaborated and performed with nearly every jazz musician of note, Zoot Sims, Bud Freeman, and Stephane Grappelli among them. His latest release is So Hard to Forget (2008). Bucky is the father of two outstanding musicians, the bassist Martin Pizzarelli and guitarist John, who has recorded over twenty albums of his own, played on recordings with his father, and has appeared on more than 40 albums of other recording jazz and pop artists.

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