Joe Maini

Joe Maini (February 8, 1930 – May 7, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.
Maini was born February 8, 1930, in Providence, Rhode Island. Early in his career Maini played in the big bands of Alvino Rey, Johnny Bothwell, and Claude Thornhill (1951). In the early 1950s he moved to Los Angeles, where he found work as a session musician and continued working in big bands, usually holding the lead alto chair. Some of the leaders he worked... plus