Word: sideman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says quietly, "by listening to other pianists. I suppose I'm playing differently now than I did a few years ago-but that's just because I don't practice as much as I used to." Such fondness for the shadows makes him the perfect sideman; last year he made 25 jazz albums, none of which listed him as leader. Among new recordings, three of the best have one thing in common: Flanagan's uplifting presence. On Moodsville's Make Someone Happy, he is the artful tailor who sews up the holes in Coleman Hawkins...
Drummer James Bradley Jr. looks like the very spirit of the sideman-brow intent, eyes unsmiling, face masked in hazy boredom. When Los Angeles television station KTLA signed him to a 26-week contract last month, no one was surprised: Bradley is an exceptional drummer. He can play three-beat rhythms with one hand while he plays four-beat with the other. He can switch hands instantly to travel from the bone-dry clatter of the wood block to the rich depth of the snare...
...Rose, swung low On the Sunny Side of the Street. Near session's end, Benny decorated him with a new Selmer sax. The King will use it in his own dozen-man modern band, in which he stars (with a onetime Thai Premier and minister to Washington as sideman) in U.S.-style swing sessions that are broadcast from the palace over the Thai radio every Friday night to his 22 million subjects...