Tony Colucci

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Hank D'Amico (front), Spots Esposito , Bobby Hackett , Walter Mercurio, Vernon Brown , Herman Yorks , Joseph Small , Sidney Stoneburn , Arthur Rollini , George Wettling , Felix Giobbe and Tony Colucci (back left). Photo. William P. Gottlieb

Anthony Colucci , also Toots Colucci (* around 1905 , † after 1950 ) was an American jazz musician ( banjo , guitar , bass guitar ) of Dixieland and swing .

Live and act

Colucci, who came from Boston and had numerous contacts in the music industry, played from the early 1920s with Sam Lanin , Roger Wolfe Kahn , Red Nichols , Vincent Lopez , Jack Shilkret and in the studio formations Bailey's Lucky Seven and The Arkansas / Arkansaw Travelers around Miff Mole , with the Original Indiana Five and Charleston Chasers . In the 1940s he was involved in recordings by Benny Carter , Joe Sullivan , Bobby Hackett's Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, the New Friends of Rhythm (including with Buster Bailey ), Floyd Smith , Jelly Roll Morton , Dr. Henry Levine's Barefoot Dixieland Philharmonic, Brad Gowans and His New York Nine and Maxine Sullivan with. In the field of jazz he was involved in 287 recording sessions between 1923 and 1946. a. also with Ethel Waters , Johnny Sylvester , Ross Gorman , Ben Selvin , Joe Venuti , Ernie Golden , Annette Hanshaw , Tommy Dorsey , Tommy Morton , Lee Morse and Mannie Klein . In 1950 he was still working with the organist Paul Taubman ( Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blu ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dick Hill: Sylvester Ahola : The Gloucester Gabriel . Scarecrow Press, 1993
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 1, 2018)
  3. ^ Billboard June 3, 1950, p. 117
personal data
SURNAME Colucci, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colucci, Anthony; Colucci, Toots
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (banjo, guitar, bass guitar) of Dixieland and swing
DATE OF BIRTH around 1905
DATE OF DEATH after 1950