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Tony Parenti
Albums
There were 10 albums found for this artist, now showing 1 through 10.
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To celebrate the opening of a new Jimmy Ryan's club, clarinetist Tony Parenti and his "Deans of Dixieland" (mostly musicians [more]
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The first of two CDs, this music was released for the first time in 1991. An all-star front line [more]
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The second half of this two-CD release has music from the same Atlanta concert as the first. [more]
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Appearances
This artist appears on 24 albums, now showing 1 through 10.
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Some but not all of Eddie Condon's studio recordings for Decca are included on this single CD. Since five of the 20 selections [more]
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With a title such as this one, it is impossible for the music to quite live up to the billing. However the [more]
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Producer Rich Conaty did an excellent job for this CD of gathering together mostly [more]
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This CD contains the complete Wild Bill Davison session of December 3, 1943 (which was originally [more]
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Bunny Berigan was one of the greatest trumpeters of the 1930s and arguably the best of 1935-38. Prior to leading [more]
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The style may have been considered way out of date in 1966, but pianist Art Hodes and his sextet happily jam their way [more]
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A variety of overlapping jazz-oriented dance bands from 1929-1930 whose records were released by the Banner, Dorn, Oriole, [more]
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ASV/Living Era has done many favors to fans of classic jazz, often compiling great work from the best bands but also devoting single [more]
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Regrettably, the clarinet isn't nearly as prominent in jazz as it once was. Some excellent [more]
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Biography
One of the finest clarinetists to emerge from New Orleans but somewhat underrated throughout his long career, Tony Parenti had a smooth and fluid sound and a style full of subtle surprises and exciting moments. Parenti's father had been a musician in the Italian Peasant Army. Parenti started on violin but soon switched permanently to clarinet. After studying at St. Philips School in New Orleans, he played in Joseph Taverno's Italian Band and worked with Alfred "Baby" Laine (1914), Nick LaRocca, Johnny Stein, Johnny DeDroit and many other bands around his hometown. Parenti (who led his own bands on and off starting in 1917) first recorded in New Orleans as a bandleader in 1925, not moving to New York until the late 1920's. He then worked in the studios of CBS and in the dance bands of Paul Ash, Arnold Johnson, Fred Rich, Meyer Davis, B.A. Rolfe and others. After four years with the Radio City Symphony Orchestra, in 1939 Parenti joined Ted Lewis' band, staying until 1945. He returned to jazz the following year, starting a long-time association with Eddie Condon, playing with George Brunis and leading his own dixieland band at Jimmy Ryan's. Parenti worked in Chicago with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole, spent four years in Florida in the early 1950's (often playing with Preacher Rolo Laylan's Five Saints), was with the Dukes of Dixieland briefly in 1952 and then returned to New York in 1954 where he mostly led his own bands including a long spell (1963-69) at Jimmy Ryan's. Tony Parenti was active up until his death, always sticking to classic dixieland. He recorded as a leader during 1925-26 and 1928 (all of which has been reissued on a CD for the Frog label), for Jazzology (1947, 1949, 1962, 1966-67 and 1971), Southland (1954), Jazztone (1955) and Fat Cat (1971). ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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