On September 20th, we received the following message from NAMM’s Dan Del Fiorentino:
Our friends at Amro Music announced the passing of Skip Buss, who left us last night.
Skip played trumpet for several big bands on the road and in local hotel ballrooms during the great Swing Era of the 1940s. He decided to leave the road when his son was born at which time he gigged at local clubs and ballrooms at night and worked for a small music retailer by day. He joined Capitol Academy of Music in Memphis in 1955. He developed a great working knowledge of violins and soon became the store’s expert. Skip was given the chance to buy the store, which he did, and he continued to run it until 1996 when the store was closed. At the time, he sold much of his violin inventory to Amro Music, where he was hired to help run the violin department.
Here is a clip from his 2013 NAMM interview:
