1/17/2024 0 Comments Bandcamp joe sullivan bbirthday![]() not sure of date* Joe Sullivan plays Fats Waller Joe Sullivan, Piano with rhythm accompaniment.1973: The Musical Moods of Joe Sullivan: Piano (Folkways).1953: New Solos by an Old Master ( Riverside).1933: Gin Mill Blues (Columbia Records).Joe Sullivan died in San Francisco in October 1971, at the age of 64. He’s a featured artist at this years Treefort Music Festival. ![]() Fisher also used that title for a book of his selected poems, because (he said) he felt Sullivan was a neglected master who deserved to have his name on the cover of a book. The British poet (and jazz pianist) Roy Fisher celebrated Sullivan's playing with a poem, "The Thing About Joe Sullivan", regarded by some critics as one of the best poems about jazz. In 1963, Sullivan met up with old colleagues Jack and Charlie Teagarden plus Pee Wee Russell when they performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Marital difficulties and excessive drinking caused Sullivan to become increasingly unreliable and unable to keep a steady job, either as band member or soloist. Issued on a 10' LP entitled Fats Waller First Editions (Epic LG1003), this music soon drifted into obscurity. īy the 1950s, Sullivan was largely forgotten, playing solo in San Francisco. In June and September of 1952, Joe Sullivan recorded eight versions of songs composed but never recorded by Thomas 'Fats' Waller. In 1940, when leading Joe Sullivan's Cafe Society Orchestra, he had a minor hit with " I've Got a Crush on You". This is Joe Sullivan’s music collection on Bandcamp. Īfter suffering for two years with tuberculosis, he briefly re-joined Bing Crosby in 1938 and the Bob Crosby Orchestra in 1939. Approximately $3,000 was raised for Sullivan. ![]() The show was broadcast over two different radio stations, with fourteen bands attending (including those led by Woody Herman, Ray Noble, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmy Grier, Louis Prima, Harry Owens, and Victor Young) and other performers included Connie Boswell, Johnny Mercer, Red Norvo, and Ella Logan. He contracted tuberculosis in 1936, and while he was convalescing at a sanitarium in Monrovia, California in 1937, Crosby organized and appeared in a five-hour benefit for him at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles on in front of an audience of six thousand. In 1933, he joined Bing Crosby as his accompanist, recording and making many radio broadcasts. In 1932 he was a member of recording group the Rhythmakers. Other musicians in his circle included Jimmy McPartland, Frank Teschemacher, Bud Freeman, Jim Lanigan and Gene Krupa. Sullivan's recording career began towards the end of 1927, when he joined McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans. He graduated from the Chicago Conservatory and was an important contributor to the Chicago jazz scene of the 1920s. He studied classical piano for 12 years and at age 17, he began to play popular music in silent-movie theaters, on radio stations, and then with the dance orchestras, where he was exposed to jazz. Sullivan was the ninth child of Irish immigrant parents. Recorded at Northmeade Studios in the first half of 2020.īig thanks to: Anne for supporting me making noise all the time and for taking the cover photo Andrew for contributing his drums and voice Ian at Aaahh!!! Real Records for supporting this release and Ed & Nick - The Happiness Werewolves.Michael Joseph O'Sullivan (Novem– October 13, 1971) was an American jazz pianist. Or in other words, it’s a weird folk-rock record about Brexit. This record covers colonialism through the eyes of museums, immigration, and wondering just what the hell is going through some people’s heads. These two things have been circling around my head in the past few years since the 2016 Brexit referendum, and the rise in an apparently socially-approved right-wing nationalism that’s gone along with it. Tilbury docks is where the Empire Windrush docked in 1948, in Thurrock, Essex – now a very safe seat for a Conservative party responsible in 2012 for wrongfully detaining and deporting many of the Windrush generation as part of the Hostile Environment policy. According to family legend, on the way over he dropped the ‘O’ from his name to sound more English. Dedicated in loving memory to Robert Clinton Sullivan. Travis Sullivan plays RS Berkeley Saxophones. ![]() Mastering engineer: Joe Lambert Mastering. All tracks composed, produced, and mixed by Travis Sullivan. Joseph Jeremiah O’Sullivan, my great-great grandfather, came over from Cork in Ireland as in the late 1800s. Travis Sullivan: alto saxophone and piano. ![]()
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