Charley Socci

Charley Socci grew up in a home surrounded by all types of music from Mario Lanza, showtunes and Edith Piaf from his Mother and Grandmother to Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis from his Father. He learned how to read treble clef and basic chord symbols well enough to plink out songs on the piano by the time he was 11. When his mother moved the family out of town after the parents divorced, Charley began spending a great deal of time at the library checking all the books and recordings they had about jazz music and especially the saxophone players. He had a recording of Benny Goodman he liked, with Buddy Tate...