Oreste Migliaccio

Who was Oreste Migliaccio?

Oreste Migliaccio was a jazz pianist and band leader prominent in the 1920s and 1930s.

Migliaccio was born in Naples, Italy in 1882. He immigrated to the United States arriving at Ellis Island, New York on September 22, 1902. Five years later he married and working as a musician and composer.

By the early 1920s he was successfully working as a musician and led a band at the Peek-Inn in New York. By 1926 he was leading the orchestra at Queensland in Brooklyn, New York. During this period he began recording for Edison with his Queensland Orchestra, recording some thirty sides from 1926 to 1929.

By 1930 he was living in Bellaire, New York in a house he had purchased. He died in 1973.