Phil Urso
Born: 2nd October 1925, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Died: 7th April 2008, Denver, Colorado, USA
Nationality: American
Phil Urso was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer known for his association with trumpeter Chet Baker.
Urso learned clarinet as a child and switched to tenor sax while in high school. He served in the Navy during World War II and then moved to New York City in 1947. There he played with Elliot Lawrence (1948–50), Woody Herman (1950-51), Terry Gibbs, Miles Davis (1952), Oscar Pettiford (1953), Jimmy Dorsey, and Bob Brookmeyer (1954). In 1955, he first began working with Chet Baker, and was a prominent contributor to Baker's Pacific Jazz releases in 1956.
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