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In Reply to: NEW MUSIC-----THE REVENGE OF D. HARVEY posted by opinionated on March 7, 2007 at 09:27:50:
#1-#3: They're hipp!!! Is there more on record ?#4: DB on tenor ? The way he slides into the 7th notes reminds me of him but I associate DB with a wider vibrato...
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I have two others (maybe more - hafta look). on 45. One is Snow White and the other is Jack and the Beanstalk. Don't see any credits for Steve Allen tho.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
...although the one I saw years ago looked quite different. It appears that maybe I'm wrong about Allen authoring the versions I posted, but Jazzbo apparently recorded these ones as well. Interesting.
dh
I'll have to hear those. My disc doesn't have any credits to Steve Allen either, but I'm sure I've seen the book and that it was written by SA.
dh
Like I told dh, I played at a Purple Grotto party for Jazzbo in the 50's. He called his studio the Purple Grotto with mushrooms growing and dripping walls etc. A good cat and a funny man. I met him again years later but he had been getting ill. Still looked the same with those old coolie pants and funky beard.
Must have been quite a character! The more I read about the 50s and 60s the more I feel I was born at the wrong time :)
do you play any instrument? That point on the 7ths really got me.
Thanks! I've fiddled around with a few instruments (does not include the fiddle though :) but never got around to developing serious chops on any. Re:#4 actually as DH pointed out the sound itself is a big clue... too many times I've tended to ignore that and instead concentrate on quirks of phrasing and note choices etc which are not always reliable.
Yes, it's DB on #4. What a sound that guy had. I absolutely love this old side on Savoy. Not sure who the sidemen are, maybe Barry can fill us in on that when the answers are put up.Glad you liked the funnies, those bop fairy tales were written by Steve Allen, and were also put out in book form. I saw the book once a long time ago and now wish I had bought it. The reader here is Al "Jazzbo" Collins, a NYC jazz DJ from years gone by. Brunswick pressed this for Down Beat magazine. I don't know if any others were made. My 78 rpm copy is the only one I've ever seen.
The third track comes from "Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America", a 2-volume set that is now available on CD. These albums are very funny send-ups of early American history, but I think this is the only jazz-related track out of them all.
Nobody mentioned KP & AR I believe on #5, did they? That of course is Gene Ammons solo.....On RT.
That's not the girl singer if that's who you mean. I don't know who the others are.
dh
I have a jazz calender hanging by my computer and the March photo is one of Annie Ross and I had been digging it. She looked real good in 1961.
xoxo
I know that Peck Morrison played bass 'cause I knew Peck and I think a cat named Ed Lewis played trumpet but I don't know or remember who else was on it. I have this and the Gene Ammons recording. Everybody assumes that Gene Ammons wrote this tune but I think Woody Herman was credited with writing it and some other cat also. Anyway, Gene Ammons made it famous with his beautiful tenor solo.Betty Carter knocked people out with her singing on this thing. Nobody really knew her that well.
Betty Carter was going to be my next guess even tho she sounds a bit different here that on my fave "Out There"
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
somewhere - maybe on 45. I'll have a look later on. Great fun!
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
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