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Bernie Glow was born on February 6, 1926 in New York, New York. During the Second World War while attending The High School of Music & Art he played in bands with Stan Getz, Tiny Khan, Shorty Rogers and George Wallington. Early on his influences were Snooky Young with the Jimmie Lunceford band, and Billy Butterfield with Benny Goodman.
At just sixteen and out of high school, Glow spent a year on the road with the Richard Himber Orchestra. Two years later he performed first with Xavier Cugat and then Raymond Scott on CBS radio. At the end of the war he played lead trumpet with the Artie Shaw band. Following that stint, he worked with Boyd Raeburn.
1949 saw the twenty-three year old retiring from the road after more than a year with Woody Herman and his famous Second Herd. Bernie worked as a trumpet player in big bands, Latin bands and dance orchestras. He performed in theaters, dance halls, night clubs and on the radio around Manhattan. This was the final preparation that launched him into the burgeoning commercial and studio scene.
During the last years of the big-band era his first-call studio work included Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and did thousands of radio and television recording sessions. Many of these studio big-band sessions were led by composer/arrangers Nelson Riddle, Quincy Jones and Oliver Nelson.
Trumpeter and sideman Bernie Glow, who played on the seminal Miles Davis and Gil Evans collaborations Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, Sketches of Spain, and Quiet Nights, died of a blood disorder in Manhasset, New York at the age of 56 on May 8, 1982.
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Jazz Poems
PARKER’S MOOD
Come with me,
If you want to go to Kansas City.
I’m feeling lowdown and blue,
My heart’s full of sorrow.
Don’t hardly know what to do.
Where will I be tomorrow?
Going to Kansas City.
Want to go too?
No, you can’t make it with me.
Going to Kansas City,
Sorry that I can’t take you.
When you see me coming,
Raise your window high.
When you see me leaving, baby,
Hang your head and cry.
I’m afraid there’s nothing in the cream, this dreamy town
A hinky-tonky monkey-woman can do
She’d only bring herself down.
So long everybody!
The time has come
And I must leave you
So if I don’t ever see your smiling face again:
Make apromise you’ll remember
Like a Christmas Day in December
That I told you
All through thick and thin
>On up until the end
Parker’s been your friend.
Don’t hang your head
When you see, when you see those six pretty horses pulling me
Put a twenty dollar silver-piece on my watchchain,
Look at the smile on my face,
And sing a little song
To let the world know I’m really free.
Don’t cry for me
‘Cause I’m going to Kansas City.
Come with me,
If you want to go to Kansas City.
KING PLEASURE (CLARENCE BEEKS)
from Jazz Poems ~ Selected and Edited by Kevin Young
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Vlady Bas was born Wladimiro Bas Zabache on February 2, 1929 in Bilbao, País Vasco, Spain. He moved to Madrid in 1952 and represented Spain at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. He was one of the first Spanish jazz musicians to play free jazz.
He has been associated with The International Youth Band, Jazztet de Madrid, Juan Carlos Calderon y Su Orquesta De Jazz, Louis Armstrong Newport International Jazz Band, Manolo Gas & The Tinto Band Bang, Orquesta Blue Stars, and Pepe Nieto Y Su Orquesta.
He founded the Vlady Bas Quartet, still on the road, now with his daughter Paula Bas as singer. The quartet members are Carlos Villa, guitar; Fernando Sobrino, piano; Antonio Domínguez, string bass and Antonio Calero, drums.
Saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist Vlady Bas is still on the road.
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Mihály Tabányi was born on February 1, 1921 in Pilis, Hungary. He began his musical studies on the violin at the age of five , and then on the piano at the age of eight. From 1933, he studied accordion for seven years with Lajos Bobula, while attending the Academy of Music and graduating in organ and gordon due to no accordion department. He then became a church organist.
1940 saw Mihály winning first place in the first National Accordion Competition as a professional. Two years later he won the National Accordion King Competition and the Tango Accordion Olympics. He later made his first jazz recordings for the Radiola Electro Record label.
Before 1945, he mainly performed in trios and later with György Cziffra with whom he played in the Bristol Hall orchestra, before founding his own band called Pinocchio that included two guitarists, Elek Bacsik and Attila Zoller, with which he performed in many countries. After 1945, he expanded the trio to eight members. In 1946 he received a contract in Switzerland and two years later he founded his own accordion school. From 1949 he played with his band at the Emke Café for seven years before disbanding in 1956.
In 1950 he was awarded the title of the country’s most popular jazz musician. In 1957 he made the first Hungarian West Coast recording for the Qualiton label. From 1960 he spent years in West Germany and gave concerts in many European countries and made several large formation recordings. He worked with many singers that immortalized his playing on their records. In 2017, the National Accordionist Society established the Mihály Tabányi Award.
Accordionist Mihály Tabányi, who was an Emerton-award winner and the most popular accordionist of the Forties and Fifties, died on July 2, 2019 at the age of 98.
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John Anderson was born January 31, 1921 in Birmingham, Alabama. He studied at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and the Westlake College of Music.
He was a part of the West Coast jazz scene with Stan Kenton and others. He went on to work with Tiny Bradshaw, Jerry Fielding, Perez Prado, Earl Bostic, Charles Mingus, Buddy Collette, Curtis Counce, Britt Woodman, Count Basie, Chico Hamilton, J. W. Alexander, Dee Williams & The California Playboys, and Sam Cooke and many others.
During his career he performed with his own orchestra as well as many others like Georgie Auld And His Orchestra, Jack Costanzo & His Afro Cuban Band and Orchestra, Johnny Mandel Orchestra, and Russell Jacquet And His All Stars.
Trumpeter and composer John Anderson died in Birmingham on August 18, 1974.
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