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29. Juli 2019 · Schuller begins his treatment of Red and his music with the following observations about Red’s significance to Jazz. “One of the finest and most consistently creative musicians of the Swing Era – still quite active today incidentally – was Kenneth Norville, known to the music world as red Norvo.
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Red Norvo (born Kenneth Norville; March 31, 1908 – April 6, 1999) [1] was an American musician, one of jazz 's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr. Swing". He helped establish the xylophone, marimba, and vibraphone as jazz instruments.
Norvo was not only first to make a jazz instrument of the xylophone, but also an unusually adventurous musician, one of those who realized that the 'swing band' was an ensemble for which good music could be written.
LP, Album, Stereo. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1984 Vinyl release of "Master Of Jazz" on Discogs.
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18. März 2014 · Red Norvo had a series of compelling records in the fifties and these four albums are a fine sampling from someone who could play high quality modern jazz. Track Listing
In 1968 in the first of Les Tomkins’ interviews with Red Norvo, the vibraphonist talked about moving with the times without deliberately aiming to, and about the fact that recording engineers never knew how to record his vibes-guitar-bass trio effectively.
