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Paul Cacia
A protege' of the master Claude Gordon and private pupil of “Cat Anderson”, he was mentored by many jazz greats among them Stan Kenton, Louie Bellson, and Don Ellis.
His professional career began as the lead trumpet for the Al Hirt Big Band in New Orleans and The Ray Anthony Orchestra. His first recording session was a duet with Stevie Wonder leading to over a decade as a top call studio musician in Los Angeles.
As a soloist his career began before sixty thousand people as the opening act for the rock group “Chicago”. Mr. Cacia also shared billing with Tito Puente the king of latin jazz and Las Vegas entertainer Pia Zadora.
In the business arena he is highly recognized as a producer, from The Mormon Tabernacle Symphony & Chorus to the Los Angeles Raider’s Big Band. He has also acted as the personal manager to the legendary “Miss Peggy Lee”.
His recently released 10th album “Legacy” celebrates twenty five years of recorded documentation all presented in state of the art studio settings featuring some of the 20th century’s most significant instrumental recording artists.
Today at the height of his artistic prowess he conducts his own concert jazz orchestra and appears as one of the world’s greatest high note trumpet showmen.
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The Paul Cacia Jazz Orchestra: Legacy - The Last Sessions
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by Edward Blanco
A trumpeter whose high-register playing style has been compared to the late Maynard Ferguson, Paul Cacia releases his tenth album and first in the last fifteen years with Legacy--The Last Sessions. It's essentially a compilation of studio sets during the years from 1991 to 2005 recorded with some degree of participation from 25 well-known big name jazz artists (among them Don Menza, Pete Christlieb, Bill Watrous, Tito Puente, Jack Sheldon, Pete and Condi Candoli, and Louie Bellson), some of whom ...
read moreTrumpeter Paul Cacia's Releases "Legacy -- The Last Sessions" on Empressario
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All About Jazz
Las Vegas, NV June 7, 2006 -- Empressario is proud to announce the new CD release of Trumpet Artist Paul Cacia. Legacy -- The Last Sessions is a monumental achievement for Paul Cacia, 15 years in the making, it features The Paul Cacia Jazz Orchestra" and 25 legendary jazz guest stars, including Louie Bellson, Tito Puente, Marshal Royal, Sweets" Edison, Snooky" Young, Chuck Findley, Don Menza, Pete Christlieb, Jack Sheldon, Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Bill Watrous and more. The jewel ...
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