Tony Parenti

Among the finest clarinetists to emerge from New Orleans but somewhat underrated throughout his long profession, Tony Parenti had a even and fluid audio and a method filled with subtle surprises and exciting occasions. Parenti’s father have been a musician within the Italian Peasant Military. Parenti began on violin but shortly switched completely to clarinet. After their studies at St. Philips College in New Orleans, he performed in Joseph Taverno’s Italian Music group and caused Alfred “Baby” Laine (1914), Nick LaRocca, Johnny Stein, Johnny DeDroit, and several other rings around his hometown. Parenti (who led his very own rings on / off beginning in 1917) initial documented in New Orleans being a bandleader in 1925, not really moving to NY until the past due ’20s. Then worked within the studios of CBS and in the dance rings of Paul Ash, Arnold Johnson, Fred High, Meyer Davis, B.A. Rolfe, among others. After four years with the air Town Symphony Orchestra, in 1939 Parenti became a member of Ted Lewis’ music group, remaining until 1945. He came back to jazz the next year, beginning a longtime association with Eddie Condon, using George Brunis, and leading his personal Dixieland music group at Jimmy Ryan’s. Parenti worked well in Chicago with Muggsy Spanier and Miff Mole, spent four years in Florida in the first ’50s (frequently using Preacher Rollo Laylan’s Five Saints), was using the Dukes of Dixieland briefly in 1952, and returned to NY in 1954, where he mainly led his personal rings including an extended spell (1963-1969) at Jimmy Ryan’s. Tony Parenti was energetic until his loss of life, always sticking with traditional Dixieland. He documented as a innovator during 1925-1926 and 1928 (which continues to be reissued on the Compact disc for the Frog label), for Jazzology (1947, 1949, 1962, 1966-1967, and 1971), Southland (1954), Jazztone (1955), and NOUVEAU RICHE BUSINESSMAN (1971).