Joe Cinderella

Joseph Richard Cinderella (June 14, 1927 – October 27, 2012) was an American jazz guitarist and educator. Guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, writing for Allmusic.com, said of Cinderella: "He was a technically brilliant, original player who for long periods let his creative talents become obscured not by piles of soot and ash but by their musical equivalent, commercial studio jobs."

Career Joe Cinderella was born into an Italian family in Newark, New Jersey, in 1927. He played mandolin, imitating his father, before picking up guitar when he was nine years old. He admired the music of Charlie Christian and Eddie Lang, and he copied the licks of Django Reinhardt. He was drafted at the age of eighteen Cinderella and his wife moved to a housing community in the Whiting section of Manchester Township, where he died from natural causes on October 27, 2012.

Discography

As sideman With Vinnie Burke East Coast Jazz 2 (Bethlehem, 1955) Bass by Pettiford/Burke with Oscar Pettiford (Bethlehem, 1957)

With Chris Connor Sings Lullabies for Lovers (Bethlehem, 1954) Sings Lullabies of Birdland (Bethlehem, 1956)

With Gil Mellé Gil's Guests (Prestige, 1956) Patterns in Jazz (Blue Note, 1956) Primitive Modern (Prestige, 1956) Quadrama (Prestige, 1957) Waterbirds (Nocturne, 1970)