[Dixielandjazz] Joe Torregano

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When I've heard him in New Orleans he sounded nothing like Pete Fountain.  
The Louisiana Music Factory would be your best bet to get recordings. Tel:  
(50$)586-1094 at 210 Decatur St. NOLA 70130.
 
 
Excerpt from "The Song for Me" - 
TORREGANO, Joseph Charles "Joe"     Clarinet; tenor sax
1952, Feb 28: New Orleans
Began on  piano, before playing reeds at 12 when a doctor recommended it on 
account of  asthma. Many years later he had lessons from Willie Humphrey. 
He played with the  Doc Paulin band, 1971-72, and the Fairview Baptist Brass 
Band, during the same  years. Also played with the Gibson, Young Tuxedo, 
Onward and Olympia Brass  Bands. In the 1970s he was associate curator of the 
New Orleans Jazz Museum, and  he taught music at the University of New 
Orleans. Recorded with Harold Dejan's  Olympia Brass Band on tour in England, 
1972. Played with the Hurricaine Brass  Band (see Footnote vol. 6-2) under 
leadership of Leroy Jones, and they recorded  in 1975. Joe has two brothers, Mike 
who plays and teaches piano, and Louis who  is principally a church 
organist, but also plays other instruments. A Lionel  Torregano is mentioned in 
Footnote volume 14-3, page 7 as on drums with Harold  Dejan at the New Orleans 
Cotton Club in the 1930s before Bill Joseph joined. Not  Joe's father, 
Louis, who only played piano at home. Mick Burns tells me that Joe  Torregano is 
a part-time policeman.
 
Brian Wood