Editing Jimmy Durante (section)

==Early life==

===Childhood===
Durante was born on the Lower East Side of New York City. He was the youngest of four children born to Rosa (née Lentino) and Bartolomeo Durante, both immigrants from [[Salerno]], [[Campania]], Italy.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rRVRi3_gxfwC&q=%22Chapter+2+Beginnings+And+Family+Roots+Durante+grew+%22&pg=PA7|title=Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography|first=David|last=Bakish|year=2007|publisher=McFarland|page=7|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0786430222}}</ref> Bartolomeo was a barber.<ref>Fowler ''Schnozzola: The Story of Jimmy Durante'' Viking Press, 1951</ref><ref>Bakish, David ''Jimmy Durante: His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography'' McFarland & Co., {{ISBN|978-0899509686}}</ref> Durante served as an [[Altar server#Altar servers in the Catholic Church|altar boy]] at [[St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church]], known as the Actor's Chapel.<ref>{{cite web|author=Vincenzo |url=http://www.sanctepater.com/2009/10/actors-chapel.html |title=The Actors' Chapel |publisher=Sancte Pater |date=October 24, 2009 |access-date=May 10, 2012}}</ref>

===Early career===
Durante dropped out of school in seventh grade to become a full-time [[ragtime]] pianist. He played in [[piano bar]]s under the name "Ragtime Jimmy" before he joined one of the first recognizable jazz bands in New York, the [[Original New Orleans Jazz Band]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Jimmy Durante (1893–1980)|url=https://syncopatedtimes.com/jimmy-durante-1893-1980/ |website=Syncopatedtimes.com|date=February 5, 2021 |access-date=10 February 2021 }}</ref> Durante was the only member not from New Orleans. His routine of breaking into a song to deliver a joke, with band or orchestra chord punctuation after each line, became a Durante trademark. In 1920 the group was renamed Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}