Word: norvo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start at 17, plugging tunes in a Seattle store for $10 a week, became a radio star with Paul Whiteman's orchestra (1929-34), made records, which have since become collector's items, with most of the leading jazzmen of her day (including ex-Husband Red Norvo...
...with entertainment and thousands without. In the former category, Ryan's, Condon's, and Birdland, all discussed elsewhere on these pages, stick to instrumental jazz. So does Nick's, Seventh Ave, and 10th, where Muggsy Spanier is the feature, and The Embers, 54th near Third, with Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo. Irving Fields, and on Sundays Bobby Hackett...
...cushiony East Side Manhattan nightclub last week was jazz all right-but subtle and discreet jazz. It was partly the instruments; there just isn't much blare in a guitar, bass fiddle and vibraphone. But it was mostly the sandy-haired man behind the "vibes." Oldtimer Red Norvo undoubtedly was, as Metronome said, "the new thrill...
...keep away. Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon ("What kind of a sophisticated place is this? I can't even send drinks to the bandstand") and even Red's exwife, Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, kept dropping in. To remind others where they first heard his name, Red Norvo kept salting his half-hour stands with such tunes as Strike Up the Band, Night and Day, Sweet Georgia Brown-songs he used to rap out on his "woodpile" (xylophone) with Paul Whiteman's band 20 years...