Real name: Joseph C. Rinaldi

Effective period / Period of releases: 1960

From the back cover of "Swinging At The Gaslight Club", cat# SM 6010: "......Joe Rinaldi And The Gaslight Three, Joe Rinaldi And His Dixieland Band. Joe Rinaldi is a native Wasingtonian who excels on clarinet, soprano sax and bass sax. His professional music career started after graduating from The Curtis Institute of Music. Joe has done NBC Studio work, as well as working with most of the big bands, including Harry James and Tony Pastor.He has a free and easy style ....... Equally talented are his side men, Joe Willens, Ray Marshall and Louis de Guibert."