Escuchando una grabación en el Club Small Paradise de Nueva York en 1962 de Babs Gonzales, vocalista de Jazz destacado por ser un innovador a través de la experimentación (uno de sus discos contiene exclusivamente historias callejeras de Manhattan narradas sobre una base de Jazz) y el sentido del ritmo y que podríamos incluir dentro de la corriente del bebop, estilo que iniciaron, por ejemplo, Charlie Parker o Dizzy Gillespie (que también interpretaba ese 'Oop-Pa-a-Da' a su manera y con quien Babs solía colaborar) y a los que veneraban el grupo de escritores conocido como la generación beat.
Babs (1919-1980) fue un buscavidas, también pianista y baterista, que se apellidó a sí mismo Gonzales para pasar por hispano en lugar de un hombre de raza negra y así poder dormir en mejores hoteles y se convirtió por un tiempo en el chófer personal de Errol Flynn entre otras artes.
En esta grabación está acompañado por algunos de aquellos geniales músicos que abundaban en la época de esplendor de las discográficas y clubes de Jazz.
Listening here to this one by Babs Gonzales performing at New York's Small Paradise in 1962. Babs (1919-1980) was a Jazz vocalist known for his experimentation (one of his records consists of street stories of Manhattan narrated by him over a Jazz base) and his sense of rythm and that can be considered as a bebop artist, that style known to be practiced by Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie (Dizzy also played 'Oop-Pa-a-Da' and was a collaborator and friend to Babs), for example, and beloved by that bunch of writers known as the Beat Generation.
Babs was a wise man, who changed his last name to Gonzales to pass by as hispanic instead of a black man so he could sleep in better hotels and used to earn a living in some diferent arts such as chauffeur for Errol Flynn.
On this excellent record he was supported by some of those great musicians that usually played around in the golden age of Jazz record labels and Clubs.
Babs (1919-1980) fue un buscavidas, también pianista y baterista, que se apellidó a sí mismo Gonzales para pasar por hispano en lugar de un hombre de raza negra y así poder dormir en mejores hoteles y se convirtió por un tiempo en el chófer personal de Errol Flynn entre otras artes.
En esta grabación está acompañado por algunos de aquellos geniales músicos que abundaban en la época de esplendor de las discográficas y clubes de Jazz.
Listening here to this one by Babs Gonzales performing at New York's Small Paradise in 1962. Babs (1919-1980) was a Jazz vocalist known for his experimentation (one of his records consists of street stories of Manhattan narrated by him over a Jazz base) and his sense of rythm and that can be considered as a bebop artist, that style known to be practiced by Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie (Dizzy also played 'Oop-Pa-a-Da' and was a collaborator and friend to Babs), for example, and beloved by that bunch of writers known as the Beat Generation.
Babs was a wise man, who changed his last name to Gonzales to pass by as hispanic instead of a black man so he could sleep in better hotels and used to earn a living in some diferent arts such as chauffeur for Errol Flynn.
On this excellent record he was supported by some of those great musicians that usually played around in the golden age of Jazz record labels and Clubs.
Babs Gonzales, New York, Md. 194os. Foto: William P. Gottlieb
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