Word: norvo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Morton (Fall River Legend) Gould at an ASCAP dinner in the visitors' honor. At week's end, Shostakovich and his countrymen rolled into Manhattan's cavernous Basin Street East to catch some summit-level jazz presided over by Old Maestros Benny Goodman on clarinet and Red Norvo on vibraharp. But if the Russians really dug the decadent, blood-tingling music, they showed it only with polite applause, an occasional twitch, no joyous faces...
...husked It's Gotta Be This or That, was spelled by such other oldtimers as Trumpeter Harry James in King Porter Stomp, Singers Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Ray Eberle. But it was not until Benny meshed with his old quintet (including Teddy Wilson on piano and Red Norvo thrumming the vibraphone) that Maestro Goodman seemed to hit his old stride in syncopation so well arranged that it sounded like real jazz improvisation. His big band was helped little by a welter of panoramic views of its members, a well-intended effort by NBC to avoid a favorite...
...Norvo with Strings (Fantasy). The first man to make the xylophone talk jazz (in the early '30s). Oldtimer Norvo has lost neither his light touch nor the warm sentiments of his younger days. Playing the vibes, he joins with guitar and bass for some stimulating reflections on such tunes as Cabin in the Sky, That Old Black Magic...
...week was the cool jazz of a gaunt, hungry-looking young (25) fellow named Gerry Mulligan, who plays the baritone saxophone. For the past three months, Mulligan's quartet has been performing in a nightclub known as the Haig, a spot that has featured such stalwarts as Red Norvo and Erroll Garner-and he was drawing the biggest crowds in the club's history. Says the Haig's happy manager: "People just like his kind of sound...
...Wild (Teddy Wilson and the All Stars; MGM, 8 sides). Old favorites such as Bugle Call Rag, Stompin' at the Savoy, I Surrender Dear, well played by the pixie-fingered professor (of jazz piano at Juilliard School of Music) and such cohorts as Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Vibraphonist Red Norvo. Not too well recorded...