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| Steve Allen at the Roundtable [ ÉLŐ ] |
| Steve Allen |
| első megjelenés éve: 1958 |
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| (2009)
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| 4.123 Ft
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| 1. | Roundtable Boogie
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| 2. | Why Don't You Want to Go Home
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| 3. | I Got Rhythm
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| 4. | Even Stephen
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| 5. | I Thought About You
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| 6. | Baby, But You Did
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Jazz / Instrumental Pop, Bop, Lounge, Easy Pop
Steve Allen - Piano
Doc Severinsen Trumpet
Doug Watts Liner Notes
Gary Frommer Drums
Gary Peacock Bass
Gus Bivona Saxophone, Sax (Alto)
Melvin Sokolsky Photography
Mundell Lowe Guitar
Rudy Traylor Producer
Terry Gibbs Vibraphone
Steve Allen was a jack of all trades as a comedian, television star, author, musician, and prolific composer, but he has been dismissed by a lot of critics as a lightweight performer and songwriter. Allen never clamed to rival Art Tatum as a pianist, or the likes of Cole Porter or Duke Ellington as a composer; he saw himself as an entertainer first. Surrounded by a strong supporting cast during this live engagement at the Roundtable (with Allen hamming it up on the cover photo in a suit of armor), Allen doesn't hog the spotlight but keeps his solos rather brief and gives his sidemen plenty of solo space. His opener "Roundtable Boogie" features guitarist Mundell Lowe, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs, and clarinetist Gus Bivona; while Allen isn't in the league of Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson, he is a more than competent boogie-woogie player (he was once complimented on his boogie-woogie playing by Teddy Wilson, who confessed he had problems playing it himself!). Gibbs swings like mad in a fun-filled take of "I Got Rhythm." "Even Stephen" is actually a wild reworking of "Jeepers Creepers." Doc Severinson adds his swinging trumpet to Allen's rousing closer, "Baby, But You Did." Although this won't be an essential recording for the average jazz fan, anyone who enjoys Steve Allen will be delighted to acquire this long-unavailable record. ~ 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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