"I get an audience involved, personally involved, in a song because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately. I can't help myself,"
"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's."
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DORIS DAY! "I listened to your CD and I enjoyed it a lot! You have a really nice style and really love what you're doing...HAVE FUN SINGING!!! THERE'S NOTHING BETTER IN THIS WORLD!!!" ==DORIS_DAY ............ ..............
"A voice reminiscent of Frank Sinatra!!! ==MARGARET_WHITING ......................................................
"YOUR CD IS Pure Joy!!!" ==PHYLLIS_DILLER .......................................................
"Tony, your CD is in my Jaguar wafting beautiful music wherever I go! Thank you for giving me such pleasure."
==JOAN FONTAINE
Music
I SING BEAUTIFUL (OLD!) LOVE SONGS! I LIKE TO SING WITH BIG JAZZ, SWING BANDS! I PERFORM ON BOTH THE EAST AND WEST COASTS OF THE U.S.! I sing everywhere! Hotels, Restaurants, Private Homes, Theaters, Jazz Clubs, Colleges, Churches, Weddings, Ballparks... (415)776-8481
MUSIC INFLUENCES:
Frank Sinatra was the singer that really got me hooked on this kind of music: jazz mixed with broadway and swing. Then, of course, Ella Fitzgerald who was so very kind to me (see 'about'). But I like a lot of singers, composers
and musicians, ranging from Richard Wagner to Rufus Wainright. But the ones I most frequently listen to, and have learned so much from, include Carmen McRae, Mel Torme, Nina Simone, Big Joe Turner, Peggy Lee, Patti Austin (I caught her show with Michel Legrand at Feinstein's in New York - mindblowing!), Sammy Davis Jr, Anita O'Day, Blossom Dearie, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Helen Humes, Tony Bennett - and the list goes on, and on. High on the list of songwriter/ performers I respect are Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell, Dory Previn and Janis Ian. For a masterclass in timing and stagecraft, go see Elaine Stritch if you can catch her one-woman show... amazing. Going back in time, my earliest musical influence - and what got me asking Santa for a drum kit - was The Beatles, but growing up in a terraced house wasn't really compatible with a budding Buddy Rich! I also wore out a stylus or two (that'll date me) to The Beach Boys, The Mamas and The Papas, and Nancy Sinatra. Then there's the bandleaders Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Sy Oliver, Woody Herman and company... and the insutrmentalists: Ben Webster, Harry Edison, Paul Gonsalves, Stan Getz, Roy Eldridge, Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, Joe Pass, Todd Gordon, Freddie Green, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, et al (Norman Granz has a lot to answer for!). Added into the mix goes Philip Glass, Richard Perry, Ravi Shankar, PSB, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein.
....."I maintain a naive belief that ART really can change the world by offering us ways to understand and communicate complex things about life that can't be said in words...." DAN COOPER, Landscape Painter 5/4/2004 ... see Dan's paintings: www.DanCooperArt.com... P.O. Box 746, Larkspur, CA 94977 .... sign up for "Free Email Subscription "E-Painting Of The Week!!!"
Tony Rizzi has sung with the cream of San Francisco musicians: pianists Ken Fishler, Kelly Park, Ross Gualco, Mark Little, Dick Schoen, Richard Hall, Kevin Gerzevitz,Alan Stegar, many others...
Movies
PAL JOEY! ANCHORS AWEIGH! CAN-CAN! IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN! YOUNG AT HEART! FROM HERE TO ETERNITY! THE TENDER TRAP!, STEP LIVELY!, VON RYAN'S EXPRESS!, ASSAULT ON A QUEEN!, MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE!, HIGHER AND HIGHER!, SUDDENLY!, THE JOKER IS WILD!, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM!, ROBIN AND HIS HOODS!, OCEAN'S ELEVEN!, COME BLOW YOUR HORN!
Television
TONY RIZZI SINGS FOR YOUR PARTY!!! (415) 776-8481... SAN FRANCISCO, BAY AREA!!!!
Books
"How To Sing For Money" by Charles Henderson and Charles Palmer.
Heroes
LEOs RULE THE EARTH!! Singer Tony Bennett and I are LEOs (he's August 3rd, I think). (Other Famous Musicians with August 13th birthday: Opera Star Kathleen Battle, Singer Dan Fogelberg, Hawaiian singer Don Ho ("Tiny Bubbles"!!), Jazz Pianist George Shearing, Actors Charles "Buddy" Rogers (film: "Wings"), Neville Brand (psycho killer "Chester" in film "D.O.A."), Wizard of Oz "Lion" Bert Lahr, Movie Director Alfred Hitchcock, Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro, Pioneer Davy Crockett, Golfer Ben Hogan, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, and Cowgal Annie Oakley!!! What a birthday!
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: French Literature
Minor: Musical Theater
Clubs: Musicals in Studio and McKenna Theater.
Greek:
Phi Beta Kappa
Award-Winning Singer. SONGS BY FRANK SINATRA, JACK JONES, TONY BENNETT,ANDY RUSSELL, BILLY ECKSTINE, BOBBY DARIN, DEAN MARTIN, SAMMY DAVIS, JR. I sing with my jazz trio (piano, bass, drums, violin, other) in Hotels, Restaurants, Colleges, Churches,
Holiday Music! Love Songs! New Year's Eve Music! Dance music: swing, fox-trot, cha-cha, bossa, slow dance, many others.... Soulful BLUES vocals, dramatic story telling, power ballads... Acclaimed by DORIS DAY, MARGARET WHITING, TONY MARTIN, JULI
TONY RIZZI, Big Band Singer! is in your extended network
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Mail $10.00 to P.O. Box 2549, MILL VALLEY CA 94942 for TONY RIZZI's NEW CD OF SINGING! "Tony Rizzi Swings Sinatra!!" ** 17_swingin', toe-tappin' Sinatra favorites with orchestra (New York, New York, Come Fly With Me, Witchcraft, All The Way, I've Got You Under My Skin, The Best Is Yet To Come, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Strangers In The Night, etc.)! POB 2549, Mill Valley CA 94942, USA (this is a starving artist project--no refunds, thanks.) .... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
