Bob Dorough
Although underexposed most of his life, Bob Dorough was an adventurous, risk-taking master of vocalese (the process of writing and singing lyrics to instrumental jazz solos) and scat singing who directly or indirectly influenced Mark Murphy, Michael Franks, Mose Allison, and Kurt Elling. The Arkansas native started out on piano in the 1940s, then took up singing in the early '50s (when he played for boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, an entertainer at the time). From 1954-1955, Dorough lived in Paris, where he recorded with singer Blossom Dearie. The improviser launched his own recording career when he signed with Bethlehem in 1955 and recorded the excellent Devil May Care, which introduced the defiant title song and lyrics to Charlie Parker's "Yardbird Suite." But sadly, he recorded only sporadically after that. In 1962, Dorough co-wrote "Comin' Home Baby" (a hit for Mel Tormé) with Ben Tucker, and in 1966 he recorded his second album, Just About Everything, for Focus. In the early '70s, he began writing and directing Schoolhouse Rock!, the series of educational children's TV programs. Though instructional material became his bread and butter, Dorough recorded obscure jazz dates for 52 Rue East, Orange Blue, Pinnacle, Bloomdido, Laissez-Faire, and other tiny labels in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1997, a 73-year-old Dorough received some long-overdue attention from a major label when the Capitol-distributed Blue Note released Right on My Way Home. Too Much Coffee Man followed in the spring of 2000. His Sunday brunch residency at New York's Iridium club culminated in 2004's live offering Sunday at Iridium and, at a sprightly 82 years of age, Dorough traveled to England for a series of live dates. The tour culminated in a recording session that spawned the charming Small Day Tomorrow album in 2006. Dorough was still performing and recording into his nineties, with the Enja label releasing the Bob Dorough Trio album But for Now in 2015. He died at his home in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania in April 2018 at the age of 94.
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21 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Devil May Care
Jazz vocal - Paru chez Bethlehem Records le 30 sept. 1956
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Right On My Way Home
Jazz - Paru chez Blue Note Records le 1 janv. 1997
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Who's On First?
Jazz - Paru chez Blue Note Records le 1 janv. 2000
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Too Much Coffee Man
Jazz - Paru chez Blue Note Records le 1 janv. 2000
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Sing and Swing
Jazz - Paru chez Red records - Crepuscule edizioni musicali le 1 janv. 1984
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Eulalia
Be Bop - Paru chez Merry Lane Records LLC le 28 janv. 2014
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Bob Dorough Trio & Special Guests Live at the Deer Head Inn
Jazz - Paru chez Deer Head Records le 9 janv. 2017
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Bob Dorough & Sam Most Quartet: Complete Recordings
Jazz - Paru chez Blue Velvet le 8 juil. 2016
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Complete Recordings with Sam Most
Jazz - Paru chez Ascension Records le 16 mai 2022
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"Hoagy's Children" In a Celebration of Hoagy Carmichael's Music, Vol. 2
Barbara Lea, Bob Dorough, Dick Sudhalter
Jazz vocal - Paru chez Audiophile le 26 août 1994
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Hal Stein – Warren Fitzgerald Quintet
Jazz - Paru chez Fresh Sound Records le 17 avr. 2015
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The Classic Sessions
Jazz - Paru chez Progressive le 9 déc. 2015
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The Houston Branch
Jazz - Paru chez DeesBees Records le 1 janv. 2005
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The Devil's Best Tunes: the Beatnik Scat of Bob Dorough
Jazz contemporain - Paru chez Fingertips le 29 août 2011
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Bob Dorough: Oliver
Jazz - Paru chez Blue Velvet le 8 juil. 2016
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Bob Dorough: Devil May Care
Jazz - Paru chez Blue Velvet le 30 sept. 1956
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Devil May Care
Musique vocale (profane et sacrée) - Paru chez SINETONE AMR le 30 sept. 1956
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Deluxe Series Volume 11 (Bethlehem Collection) : Devil May Care
Jazz contemporain - Paru chez SINETONE AMR le 31 mars 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo