Tony Cennamo

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Tony Cennamo (September 30, 1933[1] – June 8, 2010 [2][3]) was for 25 years a jazz disc jockey on Boston University's WBUR.[2] [4] When he had a morning show in the 1970s and 1980s he began his show with Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments.

Cennamo was born in Brooklyn, New York, the firstborn to Louis Cennamo and Marie (Esposito) Cennamo. Cennamo started his commercial radio career as producer of a talk radio show at WCBS. He was also the program director at the old WCAS (AM).[1] In the early 1960s Tony worked as a disc Jockey at KOIL-FM in Omaha, Nebraska.[citation needed] On weekends he headed up a popular Omaha jazz quartet known as 'Tony Cennamo and the Jazz-All-Stars.' In 1986 he represented the city of Boston in an exchange program with Melbourne, Australia to lecture about jazz history and appear on radio programs (Emerson Beacon, Winter 1989). A tribute was given to him at Berklee Performance Center in September 1997 to honor his quarter century at WBUR. Sissy Smith, James Williams, Tony Zano, Phil Wilson, and Rebecca Parris were the headliners at this event. (Boston Herald, Thursday, September 25, 1997. Arts and Lifestyles.) In 1977 Cennamo received the Boston Jazz Society's Man of the Year. He also taught Jazz History at Emerson College.[1]

In 1986 Cennamo suffered a stroke. After an absence of a few months he was back on the air (WBUR) for another eleven years, with his son James producing and engineering. Tony helped a lot of Boston Jazz musicians, always ready to offer them support and airplay.

Cennamo died on June 8, 2010 at the Glen Ridge Nursing Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts.[5]

See also

  • WBUR

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Andrew Phelps (June 9, 2010). "Remembering The Old Bebopper Of Boston". WBUR. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Steve Elman (June 9, 2010). "Remembering Tony Cennamo, Voice Of Jazz In Boston". WBUR. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  3. ↑ Steve Greenlee (June 8, 2010). "Tony Cennamo, jazz DJ, dies at 76". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2012-11-02. 
  4. ↑ Tony Cennamo retired Jazz Dj 25yrs @ Wbur,Boston - Jazz Bulletin Board
  5. ↑ Bryan Marquard (June 10, 2010). "Tony Cennamo, jazz DJ at WBUR for decades; at 76". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2010-06-10. 


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