Lorenzo Tio senior

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Lorenzo Augustine Tio senior (* 1867 in Mexico , † 1908 in Jackson (Mississippi) ) was an American clarinetist who played New Orleans Jazz .

He was the brother of the clarinetist Luis Tio (or Louis, Papa Tio, 1862-1922) and father of Lorenzo Tio junior. Tio studied at the Conservatory in Mexico City and moved to New Orleans in 1885 in a Mexican band for the Cotton Exposition . This is the traditional tradition, but this is doubted by others (the memories of contemporary witnesses in the Jazz Archive of Tulane University contradict each other in many ways). The parents of the Tios emigrated from Louisiana to Mexico around 1860 (perhaps even earlier). In 1878 the family returned to New Orleans. In New Orleans, Tio played clarinet and Eb clarinet in the Excelsior Brass Band . In 1888/89 he founded a dance orchestra with Anthony Dublais (or Doublet), which existed until about 1892, and played in the Lyre Club Symphony Orchestra in 1897 . In 1898 he was on tour with the Oliver Scott Minstrells (there should have been recordings, but they have not been preserved) and he toured with other shows. He played in the Excelsior Band until 1906. He moved to Jackson that year and doesn't seem to have played anymore.

All three Tios were considered masters of their instrument in what was then New Orleans and were in great demand as teachers (Lorenzo Tio Sr. taught among other things - alongside his son - Louis Big Eye Nelson ). Lorenzo Tio Senior himself also received lessons from his brother Luis. They belonged to the Creole population of New Orleans and were likely to be trilingual (Spanish, English, French) by nature.

literature

  • Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
  • Charles Kinzer The Tios of New Orleans and their pedagogical influence on the early Jazz clarinet style , Black Music Research, Volume 16, 1996, p. 279.
  • Charles Kinzer The Tio Family: Four Generations of New Orleans Musicians , Dissertation Louisiana State University 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to Kinzer, Reclam's Jazzführer lists August 1866 in Mexico, as does Charters in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz , and Veracruz , 1866, is also given as the place of birth
  2. ↑ Reclam's jazz guide states around 1920, as does the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
  3. ^ Dixielandjazz, Lorenzo Tio and Family
  4. ↑ According to Kinzer (dissertation 1993) the Tio's were a long-established family in New Orleans. A Marcos Tio immigrated from Catalonia in the 1790s and had a shop on Decatur Street in New Orleans. His grandson Thomas Tio, born in 1828, played the clarinet, as did his sons Luis and Lorenzo.
  5. ^ New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Tio, Lorenzo senior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tio, Lorenzo Augustine senior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico
DATE OF DEATH 1908
Place of death Jackson (Mississippi)