Tony Fruscella
{{Short description|American jazz trumpeter}}
{{Infobox musical artist |
| name = Tony Fruscella
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|2|4}}
| birth_place =Orangeburg, New York, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|8|14|1927|2|4}}
| death_place = New York City
| genre = Jazz
| occupation = Musician
| instrument = Trumpet
| years_active = 1948–1960
}}
Tony Fruscella (February 4, 1927 – August 14, 1969) was an American jazz trumpeter.Bogdanov, Woodstra, Thomas [https://books.google.com/books?id=1yXVEjS-j8IC&dq=tony+Fruscella&pg=PT450 All Music Guide to Jazz, The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music] 2002, Page 443 – {{ISBN|0-87930-717-X}}
Biography
Tony Fruscella and his sister Maria, grew up in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. He played in an Army band early in his career. He worked as a sideman in the 1950s for Charlie Barnet,[http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=3645 Charlie Barnet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307133904/http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/musician.php?id=3645 |date=2009-03-07 }} Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan (1954), and Stan Getz(1955). He played with Don JosephDon Joseph at [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Joseph/donj-disc.htm Jazz Discography] later in the 1950s, but by the early 1960s his problems with drug abuse and alcoholism prevented him from performing. Fruscella released one album, I'll Be Seeing You (1955), as a leader during his lifetime. It was recorded with Allen Eager and Danny BankDanny Bank. [http://www.jazzwax.com/2008/12/interview-danny.html JazzWax]) for Atlantic Records.
He was married to singer Morgana King.Liner notes by Doug Ramsey for Morgana King album Stretchin' Out (1977) The marriage ended in divorce after nine years.Liner Notes on Morgana King album I Just Can't Stop Loving You (1991)
Discography
- Tony Fruscella (Atlantic, 1955)
- Fru'n Brew with Brew Moore (Spotlite, 1981)
- Debut (Spotlite, 1981)
- The 1954 Unissued Atlantic Session (Fresh Sound, 2011)
Notes
- Harrison, Max. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jj4ZAAAAMAAJ&q=tony+fruscella Modern Jazz, The Essential Records, A Critical Selection] (1975) pp. 61 – {{ISBN|0-904619-01-X}}
- Yanow, Scott. [https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ny0Xu-O9PkC&dq=tony+fruscella&pg=PA162 The Trumpet Kings, The Players Who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet] (2001) pp. 162 – {{ISBN|0-87930-640-8}}
- Kerouac, Jack. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QNQDud3NUrwC&q=lonesome+travaler Lonesome Traveler] (fiction) 1989 – Page 115 – {{ISBN|0-8021-3074-7}}
- Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me by Dave Gelly (2002) pp. 68 – {{ISBN|0-87930-729-3}}
- Fifties Jazz Talk: An Oral Retrospective by Jack Gordon (2004) pp. 71- {{ISBN|0-8108-4997-6}}
- The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz by Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler (2007) pp. 76 – {{ISBN|0-19-532000-X}}
- The Jazz Discography by Tom Lord (1993) {{ISBN|1-881993-18-3}}
- The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook, Brian Morton (2002) pp. 536 – {{ISBN|0-14-101416-4}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Fruscella/index.html Tony Fruscella at Jazz Discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610083340/http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Fruscella/index.html |date=2008-06-10 }}
- Article on Fruscella: [https://archive.org/details/sim_boston-phoenix_1981-08-11_10_32/page/n69/mode/1up Flying High and Low] (August 11, 1981) The Boston Phoenix
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Category:American jazz trumpeters
Category:American male trumpeters
Category:Xanadu Records artists
Category:People from Orangeburg, New York
Category:20th-century American trumpeters
Category:Jazz musicians from New York (state)