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Don Roscoe Joseph III (July 26, 1937 – May 26, 2015), professionally known as Rocky Frisco and Rocky Curtiss, was an American musician. He was best known as the longtime pianist for JJ Cale, and for his role in the development of the music style known as the Tulsa Sound.〔Jennifer Chancellor, ("Now hear this: Tulsa Sound stalwart Rocky Frisco keeps the music coming" ), ''Tulsa World'', December 28, 2007.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tulsa musician Rocky Frisco has died )〕 ==Music career== Frisco was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He moved to Tulsa and attended Central High School in the 1950s, where he met JJ Cale and graduated in 1955.〔Curtis Killman, ("Musician A Candidate For Council" ), ''Tulsa World'', December 13, 1997.〕 Frisco and Cale played together in Gene Crose's band starting in 1957.〔 In the Fall of 1958, Frisco moved to Pennsylvania to form a band for Clyde Stacy. When Stacy retired in 1959, Frisco became lead singer for the band, The Four Flames, recording a Columbia Harmony album in New York entitled ''The Big Ten'', as "Rocky Curtiss and the Harmony Flames." Frisco performed voice work for radio and television commercials, most recently for Chris Nikel and Nelson Mazda in the Tulsa area. During the mid-1960s, Frisco, disgusted with the music business after having thousands of dollars in royalties embezzled by an A & R man he trusted, quit playing, moved to Ontario, Canada, and worked for IBM and raced MG's and Mini Coopers at Harewood Acres and Mosport. He drove a Morris Mini in the preliminary races for the 1967 Canadian Grand Prix, reverting to the name, Don Joseph. In 1972, Frisco returned to Tulsa and started playing again, first with the Don White Band and then with the John D. LeVan Band. In the years since, he played with Bill David, Gus Hardin, Tommy Overstreet and others. Frisco rejoined Cale's band in 1994, and toured the United States and Europe that summer and fall, with TV broadcasts from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Cale's 1996 tour included a concert on March 29 at Carnegie Hall with The Band. Frisco can be heard on the Cale CDs ''JJ Cale Live'', ''To Tulsa And Back'', and ''Roll On'' as well as Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival DVD set and the JJ Cale Band's DVD tour video for ''To Tulsa and Back''.〔IMDb, ("Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival" ), ''Crossroads Guitar Festival'', October 2004.〕 In May 2008, Frisco was inducted into the Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame with a lifetime achievement award. On September 17, 2009, Frisco was inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame as a winner of the Eldon Shamblin Session Musician Award.〔("Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame 2009 Inductees" ), ''Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame'', February 21, 2010.〕 In April 2012, Frisco received the Bare Bones Film Festival's "Living Legend" Award. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rocky Frisco」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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