Al Duffy

Al Duffy (actually Gandolfo Daidone , born September 20, 1906 in Brooklyn , † December 22, 2006 in Freehold , New Jersey ) was an American jazz violinist .

Live and act

Duffy played in New York in 1927 with Ted Wallace , with whom the first recordings were made. In the following years he mainly worked as a session musician a. a. with Cliff Edwards , the California Ramblers , the Dorsey Brothers , Adrian Rollini , Annette Hanshaw , Freddie Rich , Merle Johnston , Roger Wolfe Kahn , Ben Selvin , Sam Lanin , Roy Bargy , Jimmy Durante , Don Voorhees and Paul Whiteman . In 1938 he recorded for the first time under his own name ( Al Duffy Four ) when he recorded the 78's The Old Apple Tree / I Can't Stand Sittin 'in a Cell with the vocalist Frank Crumit (Decca 1708); also in 1938 he took Funiculi, Funicula (with the B-side Spaniola on Decca 2799); his band's musicians included Jimmy Lytell (clarinet), Frank Victor (guitar) and Joe Tarto (bass). Further titles were created in 1940 ( Al Duffy and His Strings in Swing ) and 1944 ( Al Duffy Hot Fiddle ) a. a. with Frank Signorelli and Tony Mottola for Musicraft. In the field of jazz he was involved in 110 recording sessions between 1927 and 1967, most recently with trumpeter Leon Merian ( The Magic Horn ).

Nevertheless, Duffy, along with Jimmy Bell , Emilio Caceres and Clarence Moore, was one of the jazz violinists who, compared to Stéphane Grappelli , Stuff Smith , Eddie South and Joe Venuti, received little public attention in the 1930s and 1940s.