My name is Phil Quidort. This is sort of a bio/update for long lost friends or brand new ones. One of the coolest things music has done for me is give me the privilege and pleasure to work with some of the stars popular while growing up in Cleveland such as: Danny Thomas, Lou Rawls, Eddie Fisher, Lauren Bacall, Karla DeVito, the Temptations, Dinah Shore, Alan King, Martha Raye, Merv Griffin, or Rosemary Clooney.
Here are some career highlights I feel extremely honored to have been a part of:
Playing:
Trombone soloist with the immortal Celia Cruz headlining Miami's Calle Ocho - crowd estimated at 1,000,000!
Led horn section for South Florida guitar wizard Wesley B. Wright's "No Regrets Band". After their shows artists such as Buddy Miles, Coco Montoya, Joey Gilmore, or Al DiMeola would stop by to check us out or sit in til 4 AM
Featured soloist with "Rastus" at the "Legends of Cleveland Rock" concert - Led by guitar ace Butch Armstrong
Guest artist along with Bill Lee, Will Lee, Marvin Stamm, and Barry Ries with Florida International University Jazz Ensemble - Mother's Day Concert. Jaco Pastorius' mother was in attendance and we performed some of his music
Trombone with entertainment legend Cab Calloway right on the sand of South Miami Beach for the Art Decco Festival
Playing Salsa music in a horn section with Luis Aquino and Melton Mustafa on trumpets
Jammin' free jazz with David Wertman and Randy Bernsen at the Sushi Blues Cafe
The Mambo Kings "A national all-star lineup of the finest latin musicians playing the hottest authentic renditions of mambo and salsa favorites". Horn section: Roger Ingram, Joey Tartell, me (TPT/TBN), Mario Escobar, with killin' rhythm section, fronted by the incredible Teddy Mulet
Guest artist with Arturo Sandoval and the FIU Jazz Ensemble
Featured soloist with Reggae/Jam Band sensation Jah Roots,opening for artists such as George Clinton and Parliament - Funkadelic,EOTO,Ziggy Marley,Particle,Bunny Wailer,Bad Brains,Morgan Heritage...
Teaching:
Substitute teaching while a student at Berklee College of Music
Professor of Trombone at Flordia International University; Arturo Sandoval's 1st Year as Professor of Trumpet there...
Presented a clinic on "How to teach beginning improvisation" to South Florida elementary school music teachers while adjunct professor of trombone at FIU
While a junior at Berklee:
Played chair 1B in a double jazz trombone choir consisting of Boston's finest freelance trombonists at trombone pedagog John Coffey's memorial service. The BSO trombone section also performed-gorgeous!
John LaPorta saying "You're sight reading amazes me man!" - I used to sight read french horn parts on trombone on professional brass quintet gigs
1st trombone on professional recording sessions with Berklee faculty and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra string section
Writing:
I'm also an experianced Horn Arranger/Horn Section Leader with 100's of arrangements for numerous bands,recordings,shows,TV,Drum and Bugle Corps,etc...
Acting:
Portrayed a KGB agent in the Yakov Smirinov Show...
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