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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Jazz for Tonight (Album of 1955)
Jazz - Released by Jazz Classics on 30 jun. 2019
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#TranceFamilia
Trance - Released by Critical Uprising on 5 mrt. 2018
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STD
Steve Allen, Jonathan Carvajal
Trance - Released by DE VA Recordings on 2 jul. 2012
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Lionhearts
Steve Allen, Corrado Baggieri, Lyd14
Trance - Released by Uplift Recordings on 2 jun. 2023
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For The Moment
Trance - Released by Flashover Trance on 22 mei 2017
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For All Of Time
Steve Allen, Deirdre McLaughlin
Trance - Released by Uplift Recordings on 7 okt. 2022
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Nightflyers
Trance - Released by Who's Afraid Of 138?! on 24 jul. 2017
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Static Symbol
Trance - Released by Uplift Recordings on 15 okt. 2021
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Funny Fone Calls
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Comedy Classics on 1 nov. 2011
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A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
Pop - Released by MVE on 20 jul. 2016
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Tranceformation
Trance - Released by VANDIT Records on 8 dec. 2017
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Remember When (feat. Weldon)
Pop - Released by Studio 254 Records on 10 jun. 2022
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Time for Calm, Vol. 2
Wereldmuziek - Released by Steve Allen on 28 jun. 2019
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Starlight
Divers - Released by Uplift Recordings on 23 sep. 2022
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Golden Selection (Remastered)
Jazz - Released by Master Tape Records on 18 sep. 2020
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