Tony Cennamo

Tony Cennamo was for 25 years a jazz disk jockey on Boston University's WBUR. [ [http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=13296 Tony Cennamo retired Jazz Dj 25yrs @ Wbur,Boston - Jazz Bulletin Board ] ] When he had a morning show in the 1970s and 1980s he began his show with Oliver Nelson's Stolen Moments.

Current WGBH jazz disk jockey Steve Schwartz cited him as a major inspiration. [ [http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=97481&parent_id=97462 WGBH | Steve Schwartz ] ]

Cennamo started his radio career as a producer of a talk radio show at CBS. He was also the program director at the old WCAS-AM. 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 Beerklee Performance Center in September 1997 to honor his quarter century at WBUR. Sissy Smith, James Williams, Tony Zano, Pill Wilson, and Rebecca Parris were the headliners at this event. (Boston Herald, Thursday, September 25, 1997. Arts and Lifestyles.)

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*WBURIn 1977 Cennamo received the Boston Jazz Society's Man of the Year.He also taught Jazz History at Emerson College. In 1986 Cennamo suffered a stoke. After an absence of a few monthshe 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. He is currently residing in a Boston nursing home.

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