Pianist, Conductor, Composer. A New York City native, he was a classically-trained musician who was known in jazz circles as "The Poet of the Piano". In 1933 he began a four-year job with the Al Kavelin Orchestra and then performed with Rudy Vallee and big bands led by Enrico Madriguera, Abe Lyman and Meyer Davis. Cavallaro debuted his first band, a five-piece combo, in 1939 at the St. Louis Hotel and launched a fourteen-piece orchestra in Hollywood 1944. He hosted the NBC Radio show "The Schaeffer Parade", recorded 20 albums for Decca Records, and appeared in the films "Holly Canteen", "Out of this World" and "The Time, The Place, The Girl". He recorded the piano soundtrack for the movie, "The Eddy Duchin Story", which starred Kim Novak and Tyrone Power.
Pianist, Conductor, Composer. A New York City native, he was a classically-trained musician who was known in jazz circles as "The Poet of the Piano". In 1933 he began a four-year job with the Al Kavelin Orchestra and then performed with Rudy Vallee and big bands led by Enrico Madriguera, Abe Lyman and Meyer Davis. Cavallaro debuted his first band, a five-piece combo, in 1939 at the St. Louis Hotel and launched a fourteen-piece orchestra in Hollywood 1944. He hosted the NBC Radio show "The Schaeffer Parade", recorded 20 albums for Decca Records, and appeared in the films "Holly Canteen", "Out of this World" and "The Time, The Place, The Girl". He recorded the piano soundtrack for the movie, "The Eddy Duchin Story", which starred Kim Novak and Tyrone Power.
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