Career
Their method of playing the instrument (which involved the Albert system, a double-lip embouchure and soft reeds) was seminal in the development of the jazz solo. The three Tios helped bring classical music theory to the ragtime, blues and jazz musicians of New Orleans. Lorenzo Junior. eventually played jazz himself.
Lorenzo Senior taught "Big Eye" Louis Nelson Delisle.
Many reed players significant in early jazz studied with Lorenzo Tio Junior., including Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, Johnny Dodds, Omer Simeon, Louis Cottrell, Junior., Jimmie Noone and Albert Nicholas. Tio Junior. taught Bigard what would become the main theme to the famous Ellington tune "Mood Indigo."
Lorenzo Tio Junior. also played oboe.
He joined Manuel Perez"s band in Chicago in 1916 and Armand J. Piron"s from 1918 to 1928, and recorded with Piron, Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton and Clarence Williams.