Chuck Domanico
Chuck Domanico | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Charles Louis Domanico |
Born |
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | January 20, 1944
Died |
October 17, 2002 57) Los Angeles, California | (aged
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Musician, composer |
Instruments | Double bass, bass guitar |
Charles Louis Domanico (January 20, 1944 – October 17, 2002), better known as Chuck Domanico, was an American jazz bassist who played double bass and bass guitar on the West Coast jazz scene.
Domanico was born in Chicago. He settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. For nearly forty years, he was a central jazz figure in Hollywood who contributed to a large number of movies and TV programs. Domanico worked with Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Carmen McRae, Joni Mitchell, Taj Mahal, Diane Schuur, Natalie Cole, and The Manhattan Transfer. He participated in instrumental jazz performances by Chet Baker, Henry Mancini, Shelly Manne, Oliver Nelson, John Klemmer, Roger Kellaway, Barney Kessel, and Art Pepper.
His bass could be heard in themes for television shows like M*A*S*H and Cheers, and he is said to have contributed to the soundtracks of more than two thousand films.
Domanico died of lung cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 58.[1]
Discography
As sideman
With Don Ellis
With Clare Fischer
With J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding
- Betwixt & Between (A&M/CTI, 1969)
With Stan Kenton
- Hair (Capitol, 1969)
With Barney Kessel
- Feeling Free (Contemporary, 1969)
With Shelly Manne
- French Concert (Galaxy, 1977 [1979]) with Lee Konitz
With Carmen McRae
- The Great American Songbook (Atlantic, 1972)
With Blue Mitchell
- African Violet (Impulse!, 1977)
With Oliver Nelson
- The Sound of Feeling (Verve, 1966)
- Black, Brown and Beautiful (Flying Dutchman, 1969)
- Skull Session (Flying Dutchman, 1975)
- Stolen Moments (East Wind, 1975)
With Herb Alpert
- Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela (Horizon, 1978)
References
- ↑ The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, 1999, p. 47