
Photo Gallery
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![]() FOUR GREAT ARTISTS AT THE PJLA NAMM BOOTH WHO ENTHUSIASTICALLY PLAYED/DEMONSTRATED DAKOTA SAXES AND PHAETON TRUMPETS DURING THIS DYNAMIC SHOW: DEON YATES, RICHARD ELLIOT, WAYNE COBHAM & SKINNY WILLIAMS. |
![]() Wayne Cobham and Pete LaPlaca join Larry Linkin in a photo at NAMM/ANAHEIM. Larry is former long presiding NAMM President...now retired. Pete & Larry were marketing executives together at G. Leblanc Corp and CMI in the 1960's |
![]() Pete LaPlaca and Richard Elliot join Sam Most (center) for a special photo celebrating their get-together at NAMM/ANAHEIM. Sam Most is a legendary Flute Jazz artist from the late '50's through today. Sam was the first Jazz Flute performer to establish the Flute as a solid member of many Jazz Groups. |
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![]() ERNIE WATTS...famous US Jazz Sax artist...had glowing comments about his Sax Dakota Straight Tenor experience, which he shared with Pete at NAMM/ANAHEIM |
![]() Billy Cobham, Pete and Wayne Cobham at NAMM 2011 |
![]() CLAUDIO RODITI playing our Phaeton PHT-3000 Pocket trumpet at a recent performance event at Chicago's famous Jazz Showcase venue. |
![]() Pete & Arturo Sandoval at ITG |
![]() Pete and Ray Monteiro, lead/star trumpet player with NBC Tonight Show band |
![]() Arturo, Doc & Claudio at ITG |
![]() Pete and Tom Politzer of 'Tower of Power' together at NAMM |
![]() These star players love Phaeton & Sax Dakota |
![]() Pete & Doc Severinsen at ITG |
![]() Pete and Doc Severinsen at NBC Tonight Show, NYC-1967 |
![]() Manny's Music 48th Street Circa 1965 |
Pete and Joe Lovano - Ravinia Jazz Festival |
![]() Pete and Contra Basso Sax in Milan |
![]() Pete and Richard Elliot Back Stage - Navy Pier - Chicago |























Pete and Joe Lovano - Ravinia Jazz Festival

