[Trombone-l] Dave Wolpe

[Price Taylor]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 7:08 PM Craig Parmerlee via Trombone-l <
trombone-l at trombonelist.org> wrote:

> Very interesting, thank you.  If I read between the lines a little, it
> seems as if Dave's parents (or maybe grandparents) immigrated from
> Germany, Austria or a nearby country, and kept the original spelling of
> the family name.  But it would have sounded like "Volpi" to American
> ears.  Evidently Dave legally changed his family name to Volpi, and that
> sort of thing was not uncommon for people joining the military services
> soon after WWII.
>
> I presume by then he was already publishing music under the name "Dave
> Wolpe" and he kept that as a (highly successful) pseudonym the rest of
> his life.  That also suggests I have been mispronouncing his name (by
> either spelling) all along.  Of course, his music is his legacy, much
> more than the chosen spelling of his name.
>
> Can anybody shed any light on that?
> What a loss to the Big Band community. I don’t know how many Wolpe charts
>  I have played but it’s quite a number.


Price Taylor

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> On 11/8/2022 9:52 AM, bonemstr at america.net wrote:
> > Yes.
> > See:
> >
> https://obituaries.neptunesociety.com/obituaries/altamonte-springs-fl/david-volpi-10983385
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2022-11-06 9:55 am, Craig Parmerlee via Trombone-l wrote:
> >> There was a rumor floating around recently that Dave Wolpe had
> >> passed.  I have not seen any confirmation of this.  Does anybody know
> >> of his status?  I believe he would be around 86 years old now.
>
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