TONY PARENTI
Dixieland / Ragtime • United States
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Anthony Parenti was born into a musical family and learned as a youngster to play various reed instruments. By the time he was a young man he had secured a job with Johnny De Droit's Jazz Orchestra, which was the first to play Jazz as we know it for the elite of New Orleans social functions. In 1924 he was leading his own band at La Vida, a restaurant in his native city, and with this unit he made his first records. He recorded sporadically, at least up to the Depression of the early thirties, which found him in New York as one of Irving Mills' cornermen, sitting in on recording dates with The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and their associates. During the early forties he worked with Ted Lewis alongside Muggsy Spanier, and with Preacher Rollo and his Five Saints on M.G.M. Tony Parenti was possessed of a fluent clarinet
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