Dean Benedetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dean Benedetti

American musician

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1922

Place of Birth: California, United States

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1957

Profession: composer, record producer, saxophonist, jazz musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Dean Benedetti

  • Dean Benedetti born Dino Alipio Benedetti (June 28, 1922 - January 20, 1957) was a saxophone player best known for amateur live recordings he made of fellow saxophonist Charlie Parker.As a tenor saxophonist and band leader in California, Benedetti first heard a record of Parker in the Spring of 1945.
  • Deeply influenced by the player, Benedetti began to study Parker, transcribing solos, building them into set pieces, and working bop into his own playing. A two-week engagement at LA's Hi-De-Ho Club in early 1947, done on discs, was the start of Benedetti's recordings.
  • In 1948, Benedetti headed to New York with bandmate Jimmy Knepper, and recorded Charlie Parker on March 31, and July 7, both of these on a Sears tape recorder. While in New York, Benedetti began to use heroin.
  • Unable to break into the New York music scene, he returned to his parents home in California in 1948.
  • Trying to finance their way back home, Benedetti and Knepper attempt to sell drugs.
  • However, Knepper took the drugs with him back to LA and abandoned Benedetti in New York. Shortly after returning to California, Benedetti discovered he had a rare muscle disease, Myasthenia Gravis.
  • The disease affected his playing, and he soon quit performing in public.
  • The disease ruined his health, and in 1953 he moved in with his parents in Italy.
  • He died on January 20, 1957, at the age of 34. The recordings he made of Parker were something of a jazz legend, until 1988 when these tapes and acetate discs were sold by his brother, Rick Benedetti, to Mosaic Records.
  • The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker box was released by Mosaic Records in 1990.

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