![]() Mottola also was with Toots Thielemans in ’55. He’s on guitar on Sarah Vaughan’s Musicraft sessions of 1947 and her Columbia dates in ’49, and he’s with Billie Holiday in ’49. Throughout the late ’40s, he slipped back and forth between jazz and pop. 1947 (My Cousin Louella, We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye and S’posin’), Mottola was impeccable. As far back as his small-group recordings with pianist Johnny Guarnieri backing Frank Sinatra at Columbia in Oct. What made Mottola special was his taste, technique and style. ![]() The superlative guitarist recorded hundreds of albums as a soloist, accompanist and as a member of jazz and pop groups, big and small. But in fairness, to call Tony Mottola “easy listening” is a bit unfair. When it rains all day after a heavy snow and fog settles in, there’s only one thing to do: reach for a bit of what used to be called Easy Listening.
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