Conte Candoli had this incredible mop of white hair, a carefully managed harvest of silver that flashed like a battle pennant when he was up there in the back row of a big band. The back row is where ...

Don’t forget the Candoli... Secundo "Conte" Candoli (1927—2001) probably appeared as a sideman on twenty times the recordings he made as a leader. A member of Woody Herman’s Thundering Herd as well as ...

Conte Candoli and Pete Candoli, trumpet-playing brothers, have been jazz stars since the ‘40s. But there was no sign of musical wear and tear in their set at Charlie O’s Friday night, delivered to an ...

A memorial service for jazz trumpeter Conte Candoli will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the prayer chapel of the Church on the Way, 14344 Sherman Way, Van Nuys. Candoli, who died last Friday, is survived ...

Former “Tonight Show” trumpeter Conte Candoli, who also was a longtime jazz band player outside the TV studio, died of cancer Dec. 14 in Palm Desert. He was 74. He and brother Pete played for the TV ...

Conte Candoli, a highly regarded jazz trumpeter who was a fixture in "The Tonight Show" band in the years when Johnny Carson broadcast the show from Burbank, has died. He was 74. Mr. Candoli died ...