Steve Allen

簡介: by Richard S. GinellFor someone of Steve Allen's versatility and staggering capacity for work, jazz occupies a small yet significant portio 更多>

by Richard S. GinellFor 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.

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Steve Allen檔案之所有專輯

  • 2024年推出專輯:《How I Miss You》
  • 2024年推出專輯:《Poetry For The Beat Generation》
  • 2024年推出專輯:《Snacks》
  • 2023年推出專輯:《The Remedy》
  • 2023年推出專輯:《Turn On The Knobs》
  • 2023年推出專輯:《About Time》
  • 2021年推出專輯:《Jazz for Tonight(Album of 1955)》
  • 1992年推出專輯:《Steve Allen Plays Jazz Tonight》