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| Steve Allen Plays Jazz Tonight |
| Steve Allen |
| első megjelenés éve: 1992 |
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| (1993)
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| 3.539 Ft
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| 1. | Tangerine
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| 2. | The One I Love
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| 3. | Body and Soul
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| 4. | After You've Gone
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| 5. | Don't Cry Little Girl
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| 6. | Steve's Blues
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| 7. | Gone With the Wind
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| 8. | A Sinner Kissed an Angel
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| 9. | You Go to My Head
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| 10. | I Can't Get Started
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| 11. | Everyone Can See How Much I Love You
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| 12. | I Should Have Told You So
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| 13. | Fine and Dandy
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Jazz / Instrumental Pop, Bop, Lounge, Easy Pop
Steve Allen - Piano
Carl Jefferson - Producer
Charles Berghoffer Bass
Chuck Berghofer Bass, ?
Frank Capp ?, Drums, Liner Notes
George Horn Mastering
Glenn Zottola Trumpet, ?
Howard Alden Guitar, ?
James Mooney Engineer
Jerry Wood Assistant Engineer
Ken Peplowski Clarinet, ?, Sax (Tenor)
Kent Judkins Art Direction
Larry Hathaway Photography
Phil Edwards Mixing
One of Steve Allen's last jazz recordings was made in 1992, some eight years prior to his death on October 30, 2000. Allen's piano playing was only one of the many talents that he shared with his audiences over his decades-long career, but he never made a big deal about his playing; it was just another way of entertaining. On this date he is the de facto leader of a group coordinated by drummer Frank Capp, which also includes guitarist Howard Alden, tenor saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Peplowski, trumpeter Glenn Zottola, and bassist Chuck Berghofer. Clearly, the musicians are having fun in this swing-filled atmosphere. The solos are spread around fairly evenly among Allen, Alden, Peplowski, and Zottola in a program that sticks primarily to standards such as "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else," "After You've Gone," "Gone With the Wind," and "I Can't Get Started." Four Allen compositions are also covered and, although none of them are among his best-known works, "Steve's Blues" features the best all-around solos of the sessions. This Steve Allen jazz release is clearly his finest effort. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Steve Allen
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Dec 21, 1921 in New York, NY
Died: Oct 30, 2000 in Encino, CA
Genre: Easy, Jazz
For someone of Steve Allen's versatility and staggering capacity for work, jazz occupies a small yet significant portion of his biography. Yet despite his crowded agenda, Allen can still spin out facile, competent, bop-and-cocktail-flavored piano in fast jazz company -- nothing particularly original but always pleasurable to hear. He started to play the piano while a child - his parents were traveling vaudeville performers -- but the keyboard soon had to take a backseat to his media career, first on radio and then on television. Best-known as a comedian and the first host of the American TV institution, the Tonight Show (1954-57), Allen frequently played piano and sang on his shows and used them as a forum to present guests from the jazz world. He also played the lead role in the film The Benny Goodman Story in 1955, produced the TV series Jazz Scene USA in 1962, and narrated a history of jazz on records The Jazz Story (Coral). Allen recorded frequently for Coral, Dot, Roulette, EmArcy, and Decca during the peak of his TV fame and as late as 1992, taped an enjoyable mainstream set for Concord Jazz, Plays Jazz Tonight.. In addition to some 43 books (and counting), Allen claims to have written (as of 1994) more than 4,700 songs, of which only a bare handful -- "This Could Be The Start of Something (Big)," "Gravy Waltz," "Impossible" -- have staked claims in the repertoire. Ultimately Allen's most valuable contribution to jazz has been as a cheerleader in the mass media.
--- Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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