Tony Z

Hammond B-3 blues organist Tony Z was lengthy a fixture in the New Britain blues membership circuit, and for just two years within Boston-area guitarist Ronnie Earl’s touring music group, the Broadcasters. Delivered and elevated in Boston, Tony Zamagni started playing body organ at St. Patrick’s College in Roxbury. He cut his musical tooth using the Boston music group Combat Zone and went on to try out using the Platters for another a decade. He spent a lot of the last mentioned area of the 1980s attempting to arrange his very own touring music group (no little feat) and functioning as a program participant in Miami for TK Information, where he documented an LP using the group Miami. After conference Ronnie Earl by way of a shared friend, trumpeter Bob Enos, Zamagni teamed up using the guitarist and became a member of his road music group, the Broadcasters, from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, Zamagni relocated to Chicago, where he worked well for 3 years with guitarist Larry McCray and discovered are a program musician on albums by Child Seals, Saffire, Small Smokey Smothers and Lee “Shot” Williams. Zamagni’s debut recording, Get Down Using the Blues, premiered on Rounder’s Tone-Cool subsidiary in 1995. The outing is certainly first-class, self-produced in Chicago’s Streeterville Studios with some stellar support musicians: previous Roomful of Blues guitarist Duke Robillard, drummer Bernard “Quite” Purdie, saxophonist Houston Person, harmonica get good at Glucose Blue and previous Albert Collins music group bassist Johnny B. Gayden. Pal Guy was therefore impressed by Obtain Down Using the Blues that he employed Tony Z to tour with him. In 1998, Tony Z released his second record for Tone Great, Kiss My Blues. The record highlighted another all-star cast including Cornell Dupree on electric guitar, Bernard “Very” Purdie on drums once again, Chuck Rainey on bass, Lenny Pickett on sax and Kim Wilson blowing harp on two monitors. Since that time he provides toured with Pal Guy and by himself, continuing to pass on his unique undertake the B-3 audio.