Tony Parenti

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Tony Parenti, Jimmy Ryan's (Club), New York, circa August 1946.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

Anthony Parenti (born August 6, 1900 in New Orleans , † April 17, 1972 in New York City ) was an American jazz clarinetist of New Orleans jazz . Although “chronically underrated”, Reclam's jazz dictionary rates him as “one of the best New Orleans clarinetists”, whose style was “full of surprises and exciting moments”.

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Parenti first played the violin as a child and then switched to the clarinet, making so great progress that he was able to replace Alcide Nunez in Papa Jack Laine 's band. He first played in Joseph Taverno's Italian Band , then with Alfred "Baby" Laine (1914), Nick LaRocca and " Johnny De Droit 's Jazz Orchestra" (the first jazz band to play for the upper classes in New Orleans). From 1921 he led his own band in the "Bienville Roof" and from 1922 to 1924 in the restaurant "La Vida" in New Orleans, with which he also recorded ("Anthony Parenti and his Melody Boys"). His reputation was so good that in 1922 he received an offer from trombonist Eddie Edwards to go to Chicago. At that time his parents were against it, and he also turned down a call from Paul Whiteman in 1925 . It was not until 1927 that he left New Orleans and went to New York, where he played with Ben Pollack (replacing Benny Goodman ), Irving Mills , Paul Ash , the Dorsey brothers. From 1930 he was a member of the "Radio City Symphony Orchestra" at CBS . From 1938 to 1944 he was on tour in the band of entertainer Ted Lewis , as well as Muggsy Spanier . In 1944 he recorded with Sidney Bechet and Max Miller in Chicago.

In 1945 he was back in New York, where he played with Eddie Condon and George Brunies . Then he had his own band "Tony Parenti and his New Orleanians" in New York, in which u. a. Wild Bill Davison , Art Hodes , Pops Foster , Arthur Trappier (drums) and Jimmy Archey played (often in " Jimmy Ryan's Club ) and with whom he also made recordings (so in 1949 on the first record on George Buck's Jazzology label) From 1947 to 1949 he was in Chicago, where he played with Muggsy Spanier (1947) and Miff Mole (1948/9), and in Miami in 1950. In 1952 he played for seven weeks with the "Dukes of Dixieland" of the Assunto brothers when he Visited New Orleans, and in a trio with Joe Sullivan and Zutty Singleton in 1954. Back in New York in 1954, he recorded with Red Allen and Tyree Glenn the following year, with Louis Armstrong in 1958 and with the Dukes of 1962-193 Dixieland and in Eddie Condon's Club, from 1963 to 1969 with his own band in "Jimmy Ryans", then in his own club until his death.
In addition to the clarinet, he also played alto and tenor saxophone - Parenti was enthusiastic about horse racing all his life Music colleagues report how he earned almost every D dollars spent on betting.

Discographic notes

  • Tony Parenti & His Orleanians (Jazzology, 1949) with Wild Bill Davison, Jimmy Archey, Art Hodes, George "Pops" Foster, Arthur Trappier
  • Ragtime Jubilee (Jazzology)
  • Tony Parenti & His Downtown Boys (Jazzology, 1955–65) with Dick Wellstood , Armand Hug
  • Jean Kittrell Sings the Blues (Jazzology, 1967)
  • The Final Bar (Jazzology, 1971) with Max Kaminsky , Charlie Bornemann , Bobby Pratt

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SURNAME Parenti, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parenti, Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz clarinetist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1972
Place of death New York City