Tony Colucci

Hank D’Amico (vorn), Spots Esposito, Bobby Hackett, Walter Mercurio, Vernon Brown, Herman Yorks, Joseph Small, Sidney Stoneburn, Arthur Rollini, George Wettling, Felix Giobbe und Tony Colucci (hinten links). Foto. William P. Gottlieb

Anthony Colucci, auch Toots Colucci (* um 1905; † nach 1950) war ein US-amerikanischer Jazzmusiker (Banjo, Gitarre, Bassgitarre) des Dixieland und Swing.

Leben und Wirken

Colucci, der aus Boston stammte und über zahlreiche Kontakte in der Musikindustrie verfügte,[1] spielte ab den frühen 1920er-Jahren bei Sam Lanin, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Red Nichols, Vincent Lopez, Jack Shilkret sowie in den Studioformationen Bailey’s Lucky Seven und The Arkansas/Arkansaw Travelers um Miff Mole, mit den Original Indiana Five und Charleston Chasers. In den 1940er-Jahren wirkte er bei Aufnahmen von Benny Carter, Joe Sullivan, Bobby Hacketts Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, der New Friends of Rhythm (U.a. mit Buster Bailey), Floyd Smith, Jelly Roll Morton, Dr. Henry Levine’s Barefoot Dixieland Philharmonic, Brad Gowans and His New York Nine und Maxine Sullivan mit. Im Bereich des Jazz war er zwischen 1923 und 1946 an 287 Aufnahmesessions beteiligt, u. a. auch mit Ethel Waters, Johnny Sylvester, Ross Gorman, Ben Selvin, Joe Venuti, Ernie Golden, Annette Hanshaw, Tommy Dorsey, Tommy Morton, Lee Morse und Mannie Klein.[2] 1950 arbeitete er noch mit dem Organisten Paul Taubman (Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blu).[3]

Einzelnachweise

  1. Dick Hill: Sylvester Ahola: The Gloucester Gabriel. Scarecrow Press, 1993
  2. Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, abgerufen am 1. August 2018)
  3. Billboard vom 3. Juni 1950, S. 117

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Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer.

[Portrait of Hank D'Amico, Spots Esposito, Bobby Hackett, Walter Mercurio, Vernon Brown, Herman Yorks, Joseph Small, Sidney Stoneburn, Arthur Rollini, George Wettling, Felix Giobbe, and Tony Colucci, Museum of Modern Music program, ABC studio, New York, N.]
1 negative : b&w ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Caption from Down Beat: Hardly ready to become museum pieces, the Hank D'Amico band here plays on the Museum of Modern Music program, aired from 10 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays over ABC. Shown above are: trumpets: Spots Esposito, Bobby Hackett; trombones: Walter Mercurio, Vernon Brown; reeds: Herman Yorks, Joseph Small, Sidney Stoneburn, Arthur Rollini, D'Amico. George Wettling plays drums, Felix Giobbe is the bass man, and Tony Colucci, guitarist. Out of the picture are Buddy Weed, piano; Tommy Kay, guitar; Irving Horowitz, sax; Steve Lipkins and Vincent Rosselli, trumpets; Charlie Small, trombone. Replacements made recently include Johnny Fallstitch for Lipkins, James Morreale for Rosselli and Johnny Grassi for Mercurio.
Notes:
Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 094
Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.
Purchase William P. Gottlieb
Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).
In: "D'Amico's musicians play for ABC's museum," Down Beat, v. 14, no. 14 (July 2, 1947), p. 2.
Subjects:
D'Amico, Hank
Esposito, Spots
Hackett, Bobby
Mercurio, Walter
Brown, Vernon, 1907-1979
Yorks, Herman
Small, Joseph
Stoneburn, Sidney
Rollini, Arthur, 1912-
Wettling, George, 1907-1968
Giobbe, Felix
Colucci, Tony
Jazz musicians--1940-1950.
Clarinetists--1940-1950.
Saxophonists--1940-1950.
ABC studio
Format: Portrait photographs--1940-1950.
Group portraits--1940-1950.
Film negatives--1940-1950.
Rights Info: Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-copyright.html
Repository: (negative) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
(reference print) Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, http://loc.gov/rr/perform/
Part Of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (DLC) 99-401005
General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html
Persistent URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.01741

Call Number: LC-GLB23- 0174