Frank Guarente

Frank Guarente (* as Francesco Saverio Guarente, October 5, 1893 in Montemiletto , Italy , † July 21, 1942 in New York City ) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and band leader.

Guarente received his musical training in Italy and moved to the USA in 1910, where he had relatives in Pennsylvania. In 1914 he came to New Orleans , where he initially worked in a bank. He knew some of the Italian-born musicians there ( Nick LaRocca , Tony Parenti ) and exchanged musical ideas with King Oliver . He played as a musician with brass bands and led his own band in Tom Anderson's . The ragtime played in New Orleans influenced him so much that he was introduced as Ragtime Frank on a tour with the Alabama Five in 1916 . After serving in the First World War, he went to Philadelphia in the orchestra of Charlie Kerr, in which Eddie Lang played the banjo. In 1921 he founded his own band in New York with Chauncey Morehouse and Arthur Schutt , which was then taken over by band leader Paul Specht in his band. There they recorded as The Georgians (directed by Guarente) from 1922 to 1924 on Columbia Records. In 1923 he had great success with the Georgians and Spechts orchestras in London and Paris and returned to Europe in 1924 to lead his own bands. He toured Europe, recorded in Switzerland (on the Kalophon label ) and then played in Bert Firman's British dance bands . In 1928 he returned to the USA. He played in the 1930s as a studio musician, with Victor Young , Bing Crosby , the Boswell Sisters and the Dorseys, and Tommy Dorsey wanted to bring him to his orchestra in 1937, but this was not due to the deteriorating health of Guarente.

According to Robert Goffin, he is said to have influenced Bix Beiderbecke .

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