Violinist who
recorded with 50s fixtures such as Louis Armstrong, Johnny Cash, Nat
King Cole, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, Carmen
McRae, Anita O'Day, Frank Sinatra, and George
Wallington, before eventually winding up on The Lawrence Welk Show.One of his earliest recordings is
the 1953 boxed set, The Complete
Capitol Singles Collection, by Frank Sinatra.In 1957, he was in the string
section on Louis Armstrong's album,You Turned the Tables on Me.He appears on the 1959 recordings This is Darin and Dean
Martin's Christmas album, A
Winter Romance.A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
also features Joe on violin.In
1961, he teamed up with Nat King Cole on The Billy May Session, and offered string support on Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira
Gershwin Song Books.A year
later, he played on the thematically disparate Hymns from the Heart by Johnny Cash and Italian Love Songs by Dean Martin.He and Cash both appear on the movie
and TV western anthology, My Rifle,
My Pony and Me.In the
early '60s, he collaborated with Duane Eddy, and can be heard on the
compilation, The RCA Years
(1962-1964).In the early
'70s, he turned to film soundtrack work, performing on the Lalo Schifrin scores for Dirty Harry and Enter the
Dragon.He also worked on
several Earth, Wind & Fire albums, including The Essential Earth, Wind & Fire, Fantasy, Greatest Hits,
I Am, and Saturday Nite, and The
Emotions' 1978 release, Sunbeam.In 1979, he reuinited
with Frank Sinatra on his boxed set, Trilogy.Other anthologies you can hear him
on are Phil Spector'sBack to Mono, Ultimate
Anita O'Day, and Q:The Musical
Biography of Quincy Jones.
