Tony Fruscella (February 4, 1927 – August 14, 1969) was an American jazz trumpeter.
[1] Tony Fruscella and his sister Maria, grew up in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York.
He worked as a sideman in the 1950s for Charlie Barnet,[2] Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan (1954), and Stan Getz(1955).
He played with Don Joseph[3] later in the 1950s, but by the early 1960s his problems with drug abuse and alcoholism prevented him from performing.
Fruscella released one album, I'll Be Seeing You (1955), as a leader during his lifetime.