Joe Loco
Joe Loco
Latest Release
- Joe Loco Plays the Classics
- March 2025
- • 12 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Schubert's Serenade (Lori) Son | ||
| 2 | Hymn to the Sun (Jana) Rumba | ||
| 3 | Nocturne E Flat Major (Carolam) Bolero | ||
| 4 | Symphony No. 5, 2nd Movement (Anita) Bolero | ||
| 5 | Prelude in C Sharp Minor (Irma) Baion |
Albums
Feb 2025 • 12 songs
Nov 2023 • 12 songs
May 2023 • 1 song
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About
Biography
A composer of numerous hit recordings, quality music orchestrator and top contender for the title of "most melodic pianist." Started with Montecino's Happy Boys in 1938. He was Machito's pianist before being drafted into the US Air Force in November, 1945. After his discharge in 1947, he free lanced with Latin music's top bands, which included Polito Galindez, Marcelino Guerra, Pupi Campo, and Julio Andino before striking gold whith his monstrous hit recording of "Tenderly" in 1952. His Latinized arrangements of American pop standard tunes enabled Loco's Quintet to perform at ...