Tony DiGregorio

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About me

Started playing guitar at age 10. Later, informal lessons with uncle, Oscar DiGregorio. Lessons with Louis E. Bruno. B.A. in music from Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. Guitar briefly with Gene Bertoncini; Mark Diorio. Classical guitar with Dennis Cinelli; Composition, Schoenberg harmony/counterpoint, and solfeggio with Paul Caputo; improvisation/composition briefly with Marty Ehrlich.
Composed/performed incidental music for experimental theater productions of The Room (composer) and The Lady Aoi (composer/performer), Journey into the Night (composer/performer) in New York and San Francisco.
CD: Was Ist Los Liebe with Mary Anne McSweeney (bass) and John Thomas (drums).
Tonyband-The Tony DiGregorio Sextet: I Love Pancakes with Tim Hays, alto sax: Nate Paris, trombone; Hill Greene, bass; Joe Peterson, bass and Andy O’Neill, drums
CD Review: The Tony DeGregorio Sextet's "I Love Pancakes!"
By Ron Hart
There is nary a genre of music that goes better with breakfast quite like jazz. Nothing makes that first
meal of the day more satisfying than having it scored by the soothing sax work of Stan Getz or the
plaintive piano genius of Bill Evans on a calm Sunday morning. So when Hudson Valley-by-way-ofBrooklyn guitarist Tony DiGregorio titled the latest LP from his renowned sextet I Love Pancakes!,
he was perhaps not so much trying to be goofy as he was providing concrete evidence to this idea of
breakfast and jazz being quintessential bedfellows.
DiGregorio and his group, which is rounded out by Tim Hays on alto sax, Nathan Paris on trombone,
Hilliard Greene and Joseph M. Peterson on basses, and Andy O'Neill on drums, have phenomenal
backgrounds with deep roots in their craft. And on these six original compositions they combine forces
to bring their collective experience to full boil on this timeless and tasteful variation of the chamber
jazz format, handsomely highlighted by lengthy workouts like "Arianna," "Blues Mondo," and "How
Are Things in Balaklava?" The oil painting on the album cover really says it all, for I Love Pancakes!
is a simply gorgeous collection of instrumentals aimed to put just the right amount of bop in your
next big breakfast.

Film: Performed in the film “Call of the Jitterbug” as part of the Swing Now Trio. Scored the Jason King film, “The Caprice” soundtrack of original music for “The Caprice” performed by Tony DiGregorio with bassist Theo Wilson and drummer John Thomas.
1985-94 with the Swing Now Trio with various special guests such as Charli Persip, Teddy Charles, Max Kaminsky, Chuck Wayne, Gene Bertoncini, Buddy Tate, Tom Harrell, Eddie Barefield, Mel Lewis, Bobby Watson and many others.
Since 1994 has worked with Laurel Watson, Hill Greene, Ken Filiano, Theo Wilson, Nicki Parrot, John Rasczka, Dave Hopkins Trio, Marco Katz, Tim Hays, and others, including a performance of Terry Riley's “In C” with The Styrenes in 2003.

I have recently graduated with a certificate in Graphic Design from the New York School of Art and Design.

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Guitar Technician
Job Titles	Music Production, Teacher, General Staff, Social Media Manager, Composer, Music Director, Producer
Years in industry	6+ years
Organisations / Memberships	ASCAP
Musical Skills	Guitar
Musical Style	Ambient, Avant-garde, Avant-garde jazz, Bebop, Big band, Blues, Bossa nova, Chamber jazz, Chicago jazz, Classical, Cool jazz, Electronica, Improv, Jazz, Samba, Swing