Sal Salvador was born in 1925 in Massachussets. Towards the end of the 1940s he moved to New York City where he became an established bop guitarist in the company of others such as Johnny Smith, Jimmy Raney, Tal Farlow and Mundell Lowe.
In 1952 he joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra and was featured on numbers like "Invention for Guitar and Trumpet." In 1953 he was voted third in the guitar section of the Down Beat Readers Poll. From 1954 on Sal made a number of recordings for Blue Note, Capitol, and Bethlehem as leader of his own quartet. He then fronted his own big band "Colors in Sound."
Sal continued to record actively if sporadically through the 1960s to 1990s although many of these recordings were for small labels whose records could be hard to find. He also wrote a number of guitar instruction books. Sal was still active as a performer and teacher almost up until his death in 1999.
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