Real name: Walter Joseph Primo Candoli

Effective period / Period of releases: 1960 - 2003

American jazz trumpeter and arranger.
Born June 28, 1923 in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.
Died January 11, 2008 in Studio City, California, USA.
Candoli got his first big break in 1941 when he joined Sonny Dunham And His Orchestra. After two years he moved on to play in New York in many bands, including Tex Beneke and Jerry Gray before moving to Los Angeles in 1952 for intensive studio work before to fronted his own band in the 1960s and formed a nightclub act in 1972.
Brother of trumpeter Conte Candoli.
Married to singers Betty Hutton, Edie Adams and actress Vicky Lane.