1.Cement mixer 2.Vout orenee 3.Please wait for me 4.Slim Gaillard's boogie 5.Harlem hunch 6.Tutti frutti 7.Travellin' blues 8.Laguna 9.Boogin' at Berg's 10.Dunkin' bagel 11.Novachord boogie 12.Tee say malee 13.Atomic cocktail 14.Yep roc heresay 15.Penicilin boogie 16.Jumpin' at the record shop 17.Minuet in vout 18.Drei six cents 19.Early morning boogie 20.That ain't right, baby 21.Riff city 22.Mean mama blues 23.Chicken rhythm 24.Santa Monica 25.Mean pretty mama 26.School kids jump
Slim Gaillard
Born Bulee Gaillard, January 4, 1916, Detroit, Michigan, Slim Gaillard died February 26, 1991 in England. Other sources, including Gaillard himself, have claimed he was born on 1 January 1916 in Santa Clara, Cuba. Slim Gaillard led an adventurous childhood. On one occasion, while travelling on board a ship on which his father was steward, he was left behind in Crete when the ship sailed. His adventures became more exciting every time he recounted his tales and include activities such as professional boxing, mortician and truck driver for bootleggers. Originally based in Detroit, Slim Gaillard entered vaudeville in the early 30s with an act during which he played the guitar while tap-dancing. Later in the decade he moved to New York and formed a duo with bassist Slam Stewart in which Slim Gaillard mostly played guitar and sang. Much of their repertoire was original material with lyrics conceived in Gaillard's personal version of the currently popular 'jive talk', which on his lips developed extraordinary surrealist overtones. Gaillard's language, which he named 'Vout' or 'Vout Oreenie', helped the duo achieve a number of hit records, including 'Flat Foot Floogie'. Their success led to a long running radio series and an appearance in the film Hellzapoppin. In 1943 Stewart was inducted for military service and was replaced by Bam Brown. Now based in Los Angeles, Slim Gaillard continued to write songs, often in collaboration with Brown, and had another big hit with 'Cement Mixer (Put-ti Put-ti)'. With Brown he co-authored a remarkable extended work, 'Opera in Vout', which premiered in Los Angeles in 1946. (In fact, it was not an opera and not much of it was in vout!) Another huge hit was 'Down By The Station', a song which, uniquely for a jazz artist, entered the catalogue of classic children's nursery rhymes. Contrastingly, he also recorded with bebop musicians, including Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (Slim's Jam). In the late 40s he continued his eccentric entertaining, which included such intriguing routines as playing piano with his hands upside-down. Not surprisingly, given his manner of performance and his private language, some people never quite understood Slim Gaillard and one radio station banned his record 'Yep Roc Heresy', declaring it to be degenerate; in fact, the lyric was merely a recitation of the menu from an Armenian restaurant! In the late 50s and for several years thereafter, Slim Gaillard worked mostly outside music but gradually returned to prominence by way of acting roles, (including a part in the USA television series, Roots), festival appearances with Stewart and, in the 80s, numerous television and stage shows in the UK where he became resident in 1983. His tall, loping figure, invariably topped by a big grin and a rakish white beret, became a familiar sight in London's jazz-land. In 1989 he starred in a four-part UK BBC television series, The World Of Slim Gaillard. In addition to his singing and guitar playing, Slim Gaillard also played piano, vibraphone and tenor saxophone.
Slim Gaillard - where jazz and swing meets R&B.