Frank Signorelli

Frank Signorelli ( born May 24, 1901 in New York City; † December 9, 1975 ) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

Signorelli 1918 accompanied blues singer Tess Giardella and worked with Nick LaRocca. In 1917 he was a founding member of the Original Memphis Five by Phil Napoleon and was 1921/2 briefly a member of the Original Dixieland Jass band ( ODJB ) by LaRocca. He then returned in the original Memphis Five. In 1927 he played in Adrian Rollini in New York and the late 1920s and early 1930s, he played and he took up with Eddie Lang, Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, and Red Nichols. 1936 to 1938 he played with the newly united ODJB and 1938 with Paul Whiteman. In 1946 he took up with Phil Napoleon. He also played regularly about the " Nick's " in New York with Bobby Hackett. In the late 1950s he helped a reunion of the original Memphis Five in 1958 to set up and on with Miff Mole. Under his own name only three recording sessions known (1926, 1946 Phil Napoleon, in 1950 as a companion of the singer kind Gentry ).

Signorelli et al composed "A Blues Serenade" and was the co - composer of " I'll never be the same" and "Stairway to the Stars."

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• Connee Boswell and the Original Memphis Five ( RCA Victor, 1956) with Billy Butterfield, Miff Mole