Steve Allen
For someone of Steve Allen's versatility and staggering capacity for work, jazz occupied a small yet significant portion of his biography. Yet despite his crowded agenda, Allen could 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 back seat 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 (September 1954 to January 1957), 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 he taped an enjoyable mainstream set for Concord Jazz, Plays Jazz Tonight. In addition to some 43 books, Allen claimed 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, his most valuable contribution to jazz was as a cheerleader in the mass media. Steve Allen died in Encino, California, in October 2000 at the age of 78.
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Poetry for the Beat Generation
Literature - Editado por Poppydisc el 3 feb. 1959
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Letter From My Heart
Dance - Editado por Nocolors el 15 may. 2011
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Steve Allen’s Hip Fables
Silm Gaillard, Al "Jazzbo" Collins, Ray Mantilla, Steve Allen
Pop - Editado por Sundazed Music - Modern Harmonic el 10 jun. 1983
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Ophiuchus
Trance - Editado por Uplift Recordings el 12 nov. 2021
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Message of Love (Original 12" Version)
Pop - Editado por Nocolors el 26 may. 2011
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Poetry For The Beat Generation (1999 Remaster)
Humour/Spoken Word - Editado por Parlophone UK el 1 jun. 1959
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Gravy Waltz & 11 Current Hits!
Pop - Editado por Master Classics Records el 1 may. 2011
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Letter From My Heart
Pop - Editado por New Way Music Musikverlag und Produktion el 26 jul. 2018
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This Moment (Original Mix)
Varios - Editado por Critical Uprising el 31 jul. 2017
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Time for Calm, Vol. 1
Lounge - Editado por Steve Allen el 14 jun. 2019
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Monday Nights
World music - Editado por TP4 Music el 6 ene. 2020
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Vintage Jazz No. 132 - EP: All Star Jazz Concert
Jazz - Editado por Vintage Music el 8 abr. 1955
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Balaria
Trance - Editado por Diverted Recordings el 18 feb. 2007
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