Word: amico
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tagliavini had met buxom Pia Tassinari (still her stage name) in Sicily during the war. They were singing opposite each other in Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz in Palermo. Suddenly the air-raid sirens screamed. Audience and singers scurried for shelter. Then Tenor Tagliavini, who had taken an instant shine to the black-eyed soprano, got his chance. In the darkness of the shelter, says he, he murmured "sweet words of comfort...
...High Cost. In Milan, Italy, Massimo D'Amico took one look at the check for his dinner, drew his revolver, demanded a reduction, got none, shot himself dead...
...really cut loose and made an epic series of records. She had everything her own way. She sang old songs, new ones, anything good. For accompaniment she got the best musicians available. Some of them, like Teddy Wilson, Artic Shaw, Chu Berry are well known; others, like Hank d'Amico, Chris Griffin are not. But the most ignominious musician on her dates complemented Mildred's singing and not incidentally produced good jazz. In fact, John Kirby's band has never played quite so well as when it backed up Mildred's Vocalion, version of "Downhearted Blues...
Charlie Barnet is scheduled to do six twelve inch sides on Otto Cesana's "Symphony in Swing"--the longest jazz yet recorded . . . Bob Crosby's band gets some punch it has long needed with Doc Rando going in at third sax and Hank D'Amico going in shortly at lead. This will give the band three great clarinetists: D'Amico in the New York style and Rando and Fazola in the New Orleans style . . . Eddla Durham is starting a band--big news since he was responsible for much of the Lunceford-Basie-Savit success...