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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Steve Allen, Jonathan Carvajal
Trance - Released by DE VA Recordings on Jul 2, 2012
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Lionhearts
Steve Allen, Corrado Baggieri, Lyd14
Trance - Released by Uplift Recordings on Jun 2, 2023
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For The Moment
Trance - Released by Flashover Trance on May 22, 2017
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For All Of Time
Steve Allen, Deirdre McLaughlin
Trance - Released by Uplift Recordings on Oct 7, 2022
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Nightflyers
Trance - Released by Who's Afraid Of 138?! on Jul 24, 2017
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Static Symbol
Trance - Released by Uplift Recordings on Oct 15, 2021
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Funny Fone Calls
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Comedy Classics on Nov 1, 2011
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Remember When (feat. Weldon)
Pop - Released by Studio 254 Records on Jun 10, 2022
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Time for Calm, Vol. 2
World - Released by Steve Allen on Jun 28, 2019
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Starlight
Miscellaneous - Released by Uplift Recordings on Sep 23, 2022
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Isolation
Trance - Released by Digital Society Recordings on Apr 13, 2018
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Metamorphosis
Dance - Released by Damaged Records on Sep 25, 2017
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A Man Called Dagger (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film Soundtracks - Released by Beverly Hills Records on Dec 3, 1968
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A Man Called Dagger (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Extended Version]
Film Soundtracks - Released by Beverly Hills Records on Dec 15, 1968
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We Unite
Miscellaneous - Released by Reaching Altitude on Feb 16, 2024
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The Undecided Sky - Single
Pop - Released by Steve Allen on Jun 24, 2010
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Time for Calm, Vol. 3
Classical - Released by Steve Allen on Dec 18, 2023
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