Tony Rodriquenz and an unidentified trombone player recording in Cucamonga, c. 1963, as seen on the VPRO documentary The Present Day Composer Refuses To Die (2000)
Tony Rodriquenz and an unidentified trombone player recording in Cucamonga, c. 1963, as seen on the VPRO documentary The Present Day Composer Refuses To Die (2000)
7. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
Music: FZ
Date: 1961
Location: Studio Z, Cucamonga, Calif.
Engineer: Paul Buff
Musicians: CHUCK GROVE (drums); CARONGA WARD (bass);
TONY RODRIGUEZ (alto sax); CHUCK FOSTER (trumpet);
DANNY HELFERIN (piano); FZ (guitar)
My cousin Anthony [Rodriquenz] was from our common hometown, Leominster, Massachusetts. My father named Willie (Tony's uncle) was a great saxophone player in New England in the 40's and 50's and played with Tony Bennett in Europe while in the military after WWII. Tony admired my Dad and became a saxophone player also, moving to California after being in the military in the early 1960's. Both learned to play the saxophone under the tutelage of an old school music teacher from Leominster named Mr. Sutcliffe, who hung around long enough to teach me the instrument though I never took it as seriously as muy Dad or my cousin Tony. Tony lived in Fountain Valley, CA as did his parents until their deaths in the 1980's. He was a quiet, first rate musician who never talked much about himself or his life, but lived for his music. I still discover more about his musical connections yearly as memories of his musical interactions keep surfacing occasionally on the web as with this website. My Dad passed away a few years ago and nothing remains but the memories of their music.
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