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| Plays Hi-fi Music for Influentials |
| Steve Allen |
első megjelenés éve: 1957
39 perc |
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| (1990)
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CD |
| 4.499 Ft
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| 1. | Love for Sale
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| 2. | Laura
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| 3. | You're So Influential
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| 4. | This Could Be the Start of Something
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| 5. | Easy to Love
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| 6. | Adios
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| 7. | Theme from Lawrence of Arabia
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| 8. | Impossible
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| 9. | Take up the Slack
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| 10. | Tonight
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| 11. | Stormy Weather
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| 12. | The Peanut Vendor
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| 13. | Lovely to Look At
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| 14. | A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
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| 15. | Theme from a Man Called Dagger
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| 16. | Leave It to Me
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Jazz / Instrumental Pop, Bop, Lounge
Steve Allen - Piano, Vocals, Executive Producer
Bob Enevoldsen Arranger
Bunny Robyn Producer
Cary E. Mansfield Compilation Producer
Donn Trenner Arranger, Producer, Conductor
J. Hill Arranger
Joseph F. Laredo Liner Notes
Marty Wekser Compilation Producer
Milt Rogers Arranger
Milton DeLugg Arranger
Neal Hefti Arranger
Paul Elmore Remastering
Randy Wood Producer
Tom Mack Producer
This release features 16 tracks selected from various albums issued between 1957 and 1966. Allen distributes the material fairly evenly between his own compositions and interpretations of standards by the likes of Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, and Irving Berlin. As cocktail jazz goes, it's very straight-ahead (though some cuts take a bossa nova approach), and perhaps not eccentric enough to appeal to the lounge revival crowd. ~ Richie Unterberger, 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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