[Trombone-l] Dave Wolpe

[Jon Studer]

Just realized today that I'm currently playing an arrangement of Dave's in our community jazz band.
I'm playing bass trombone on his arrangement of Makin' Whoopee.
We played it in 2016 and it's circled back into our rotation this year.

We really enjoy this arrangement.

-Jon



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From: Trombone-l <trombone-l-bounces at trombonelist.org> on behalf of Price Taylor via Trombone-l <trombone-l at trombonelist.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 3:07 PM
To: craig at parmerlee.com <craig at parmerlee.com>
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Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Dave Wolpe

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://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fobituaries.neptunesociety.com%2Fobituaries%2Faltamonte-springs-fl%2Fdavid-volpi-10983385&data=05%7C01%7C%7C4f41a6b21c0240fd082208dac2a739a2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638036320722877181%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZuLeeMCRafudKPSjX9HE831QNhhcDVnDRABBYahDOt0%3D&reserved=0
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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