Correspondence, transcripts of interviews, photographs, a biography, a discography, an award, printed material and other miscellany documenting the life and career of Red Norvo. Along with Lionel ...
Red Norvo's The Secret Session arrives like a message in a bottle, its cork finally loosened after more than 80 years. Recorded in late 1942, in the dead of night and against the grain of wartime ...
Red Norvo played the vibes while leading his own band during the swing era and grew into smaller groups in the forties and fifites once the practicality of leading a large ensemble became too much. He ...
The music in the air at a 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 ...
side 1: Jack Smith with the Clark Sisters. Baby Face [track 1] Heartbreaker [track 2] Skitch Henderson and Orchestra. A Fella With an Umbrella [track 3] Beyond the Blue Horizon [track 4]; side 2: Red ...