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Bobby Troup and Bob Enevoldsen

Bobby Troup and Bob Enevoldsen

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

As the recording industry shifted its focus from the jukebox to the home market starting in 1949, a new generation of singers emerged to win over the slippers and sofa set. Rather than croon standards passionately like Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, these new singers were more likely to record material by new songwriters and deliver them with a relaxed, lounge-like intimacy. Among this group was singer-songwriter-pianist Bobby Troup, whose first leadership date in 1953 for Capitol is remarkable for ...

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Interview

Bob Enevoldsen: Smorgasbord

Bob Enevoldsen: Smorgasbord

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Back in the early 1950s, jazz musicians were impossibly gifted. A good number not only could play their primary instrument with enormous skill and flair, they often could play quite a few others. This was particularly true on the West Coast, where studio work was abundant but your share depended largely on how many axes you could grind. If you played only the tenor sax, your odds of being called consistently for a job were slim given the competition. But ...

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Obituary

Bob Enevoldsen dies

Bob Enevoldsen dies

Source: All About Jazz

Bob Enevoldsen - Doug Ramsey, November 23, 2005 One of the joys of listening to The Bill Holman Band the past decade or so has been the opening minute of “No Joy In Mudville." Over an insistent one-bar riff figure repeated by the saxophones, Bob Enevoldsen plays a valve trombone solo of pure exuberance. It is the first track in Holman's CD A View From The Side. It was, almost invariably, the first piece he called when the band performed. ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Reflections In Jazz

Atlantic Records
1956

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Smorgasbord

Atlantic Records
1956

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