That's A Plenty - Anthony Parenti's Famous Melody Boys, 1925
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Channel: 240252 · 2011 · Music
That's A Plenty (Lew Pollack) - Anthony Parenti's Famous Melody Boys (Playing at La Vida), Okeh 1925 (Recorded in New Orleans) NOTE: Anthony (Tony) PARENTI (1900--1972) American jazz clarinettist and saxophonist born in New Orleans, he was a childhood musical prodigy, first on violin, then on clarinet. As a child and teenager he played in various New Orleans bands (Alcide Nunez, Johnny Dedroit, Nick LaRocca) and from mid 1920s he led his own orchestra, Famous Melody Boys. His first recordings were made at New Orleans, before moving to NYC where he worked with Benny Goodman and Fred Rich. In 1930s he worked as a CBS staffman and as a member of the Radio City Symphony Orchestra. From 1939-1945 Parenti, with Ted Lewis's band, played alongside Muggsy Spanier. In 1944, he recorded and appeared in concert with Sidney Bechet and Max Miller in Chicago. In the 1940s and still in New York City, Parenti formed a Dixieland jazz band called Tony Parenti and His New Orleanians, and which featured Wild Bill Davison, Art Hodes and Jimmy Archey, he also worked with Eddie Condon. Parenti remained active until the 1960s in clubs, and died in New York City in 1972.
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