Guitarist, composer, arranger, teacher and band leader Sal Salvador (1925-1999) had a career that spanned over fifty years. After membership in Stan Kenton's big band and leading a quartet and quintet of his own in the early 1950s, Salvador led a big band and recorded the album Colors in Sound (Decca 1958) under the name Sal Salvador Quartet with Brass. In the following decade, he led the Colors in Sound Big Band on a subsequent album You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet (Dauntless Records 1963). The pieces on the albums Colors in Sound and You Ain't Heard Nothin Yet were arranged respectively by two other Stan Kenton associates: George Roumanis and Hank Levy. Salvador led and recorded with another large ensemble in the nineteen seventies; Sal Salvador & Orchestra released Cerca de Ti (TamTam 1971).
From the guide to the The Sal Salvador Orchestra Collection, 1958-circa 1963, (Rutgers University Libraries. Institute of Jazz Studies)
