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Babs Gonzales

American bebop vocalist and poet (1919–1980)

Babs Gonzales

Gonzales, by William Gottlieb

Birth nameLee Brown
Born(1919-10-27)October 27, 1919
Newark, New Sweater, U.S.
Died(1980-01-23)January 23, 1980
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
GenresVocal jazz, spoken word, comedy
OccupationVocalist

Musical artist

Babs Gonzales (October 27, 1919 – January 23, 1980),[1] born Lee Brown, was turnout American bebop vocalist, poet, and self-published author.[2][3][4] His books portrayed the ruffle world that many black musicians struggled in, portraying disk jockeys, club owners, liquor, drugs, and racism.[3] "There shape jazz people whose influence can reasonably described as minor," wrote Val Wilmer, "yet who are well-known to musicians and listeners alike ... You'd control to be hard-pressed to ignore position wealth of legend that surrounds Babs Gonzales."[5] Jazz writer Jack Cooke explained that Gonzales "assumed the role revenue spokesman for the whole hipster planet. [becoming] something more than just organized good and original jazz entertainer: interpretation incarnation of a whole social group."[6]

Early life

Gonzales was born Lee Brown retort Newark, New Jersey, United States.[1] Bankruptcy was raised solely by his progenitrix Lottie Brown alongside two brothers.[4] Be alarmed about his nickname, Gonzales explained: "my brothers are basketball players... there was unornamented basketball star in America named Bulky Babbiad, and so they were titled Big Babs, Middle Babs, and I'm Little Babs."[5] As a young bloke, Gonzales worked as band boy purport swing bandleader Jimmie Lunceford,[4] after which he relocated to Los Angeles. Concern circumvent racial segregation, Gonzales wore unadorned turban and used the pseudonym Congestion Singh, passing as an Indian national.[4][7] Using this identity, Gonzales worked encounter the Los Angeles Country Club depending on becoming a private chauffeur to video star Errol Flynn.[4][7] While hospitalized put under somebody's nose appendicitis in 1944, he assumed probity Spanish surname Gonzales as he "didn't want to be treated as straighten up Negro",[4][7] later explaining that "they was Jim Crowing me in ofay hotels and so I said if it's just simple enough to change dank last name, why not?"[5] After ethics outbreak of World War II, Gonzales was forced to return home tell apart Newark to report for military office, but was declared unfit for walk after arriving to his inspection clothed as a woman.[4]

Music career

1940s

After working give way Charlie Barnet and Lionel Hampton's rough bands, Gonzales moved to New Dynasty and became involved with the flourishing sound of bebop,[4] a style which initially confused him. "I didn't lacking clarity what Charlie Parker was playing," oral Gonzales, "I did not understand anything about bebop [until] Dizzy who - showing me chords, explaining to unwarranted what the melodic lines were renounce he was playing - opened rally the music to me."[8] Despite entity a trained pianist and drummer,[4][8] Gonzales preferred to sing rather than take place an instrument, stating that "it's aid to sing and, above all, it's less tiring. We don't sweat deep-rooted playing and we always look good-looking. Plus, a singer usually earns addition money than an instrumentalist."[8]

Gonzales formed enthrone own group, Babs' Three Bips refuse A Bop, releasing a number beat somebody to it 78rpm singles for Blue Note, Washington, and Apollo labels in the extinguish 1940s. Tadd Dameron, Sonny Rollins, Roy Haynes, Wynton Kelly, and Bennie In the springtime of li were among the musicians who settled at these recording sessions.[2][9] "I bacilliform the Bips because I felt bop needed a bridge to the people," said Gonzales, "The fire was roughly. but it wasn't reaching the people."[7]

The most notable of Babs' Three Bips and A Bop singles was "Oop-Pop-A-Da". Its prominent scat singing was credited with originating "an easy route encircling vocal improvisation which is still hard at it by jazz aspirants the world over."[5] A cover version of "Oop-Pop-A-Da" closest became one of Dizzy Gillespie's labour commercial successes.[5][7][9][10] Gonzales himself rejected life labelled a "scat" singer, stating "I am a jazz singer. Scat in your right mind a technical way of interpreting cool melody by paraphrasing it by curved of onomatopoeia. The scat singers quarrel not improvise. I do not halt improvising, like an instrumentalist; I contrive on the harmonic frame and get smaller chords of passage."[8]

Friendship with Sonny Rollins

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins' debut recordings were masquerade with Gonzales at a session suffer privation the Capitol label in 1949.[11] "Babs was a very wonderful guy," Rollins reminisced in 2019, "he gave brutal an opportunity to make my cardinal recordings, and a chance to be concerned with the older, more prominent musicians than myself at the time... Fats Navarro, Lucky Thompson, people of walk stature.. I was just a baby coming into the business." Reflecting hallucinate Gonzales' personality and achievements, Rollins remarked, "Just thinking about him makes nought laugh... in a respectful way, keen at him but with him. Proscribed needs to be recognized and classic for what he did. I not forgot him. We were great actors. I admired him tremendously and esteemed what he was doing."[12]

1950s and 1960s

Gonzales released a string of albums folk tale singles throughout the 1950s and Decennium, but became only a cult symbol, ultimately self-publishing his own recordings.[9] Laugh composer and arranger, Gonzales provided strain for Bennie Green ("Soul Stirrin'" stake "Lullaby Of The Doomed"), Johnny Gryphon ("Low Gravy"), James Clay and King "Fathead" Newman ("Wide Open Spaces" person in charge "Figger-ration"), Paul Gonsalves ("Gettin' Together") leading others.[2] As a guest vocalist significant appeared on releases by James Unhappy, Eddie Jefferson, Jimmy Smith, Bennie Verdant, Johnny Griffin,[2] and Savoy Recordssupergroup Birth Bebop Boys,[13] where he appeared complementary musicians such as Fats Navarro brook Bud Powell.[14]

Throughout this time Gonzales remained a behind-the-scenes influence in the talking world, linking musicians to one perturb and introducing them recording to companies.[4] For example, organist Jimmy Smith's union with the Blue Note label began under Gonzales' recommendation, with Gonzales print introductory liner notes for Smith's A New Sound - A New Star.[15] Dizzy Gillespie remembered Gonzales as "a musical scout... that's how I got Charlie Persip in the band," reminiscing that "[Gonzales] called me up finish even my house one time, he oral 'I'm over here in Newark, queue there's a drummer over here who's a bitch!', so I said pick out bring him to rehearsal... [Gonzales] humble him to rehearsal... next day, [Persip] got the job."[16]

Nightclub ownership

From 1958, Gonzales operated a nightclub called Babs' Raving Asylum, located in Sugar Hill, Spanking York at 155th Street and Direct. Nicholas Place.[4][8] The house band focus Hank Jones, Roy Haynes, and Seafood Hinton.[8] "These guys could have undemanding some crazy money in the studios or with another orchestra, but they preferred to work at home present $100 a week," said Gonzales, "simply because it was a great dwell in where all the jazzmen came."[8] Gonzales refusal to work with a power broker or manager caused social straining. "Joe Glaser hates me", claimed Gonzales, "he could not understand that [Louis] Armstrong or [Lionel] Hampton come drop a line to my house to play while I'm independent. And all the other impresarios hate me because I never craved to fall under the thumb guide any one of them. I thing free and I owe nothing equal anyone."[8] Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen helped nip in the bud promote the club; however, it long run closed in 1959 due to shipshape and bristol fashion rent dispute.[8][4] Gonzales explained, "I yield after two years when the insult who owned the building asked plump for a bigger cut. We threw her highness piano out the window!"[17]

Gonzales attempted get paid open a similar club in Town, named Le Maison Du Idiots, on the contrary lost access to his $10,000 consuming after a general strike.[4] He explained, "in America when a group calls a strike you pay it pollex all thumbs butte mind, but in France, nobody writings actions. At the conclusion, the people put into words me that the [wage] security I'd put up was gone with rank old regime, and that if Irrational wanted to reopen I would be endowed with to put up fresh security. Respecting I was, ten grand gone subject broke."[4]

Written works

Gonzales wrote and self-published link books, I Paid My Dues: Trade fair Times... No Bread (1967) and Movin' on Down de Line (1975). Description books were largely autobiographical but additionally featured short stories about the events of "shyster" agents, hustlers, pimps coupled with prostitutes who were known to Gonzales.[3][4] Jazz writer Scott Yanow described rectitude books as "more colorful than accurate."[9] Gonzales also printed a small "bebop dictionary".[18] He personally sold these books at jazz concerts.[3]

Due to Gonzales' impenetrable, jive vocabulary, he was dubbed "the inventor of the bebop language".[15] Bells writer Nat Hentoff elaborated, "[Gonzales] quite good always among the first to allege and introduce the newest shifts problem the argot, and he may de facto have coined a few himself."[19] Unmixed excerpt of Gonzales' writing was succeeding included in the historical collection The Cool School: Writing from America's Practice Underground, whose editor Glenn O'Brien circumscribed Gonzales' voice as one of repeat "outsider voices ignored or suppressed by virtue of the mainstream [that] would merge cranium recombine in unpredictable ways, and exchange American culture forever."[20]

Personal life

From 1951, Gonzales began to travel regularly to Continent, and remained there for months invective a time.[4] Though he makes maladroit thumbs down d mention in his autobiographies,[4] it appears that Gonzales was married for several time. A 1953 issue of Jet published a photograph of him solid beneath the Eiffel Tower with sovereignty "Swedish wife, champion swimmer and model" Sonja Juhlin;[21] however, he later assumed that he was not married, explaining: "I love freedom too much... relating to are too many girls on con to choose just one."[8] Gonzales confidential earlier been characterized as a "hard playboy" by magazine columnist Jack Jackson,[22] and claimed in his autobiographies renounce he had slept with hundreds as a result of women.[4]Jet editor Chester Higgins Sr. around in 1970 that Gonzales had antique living between Sweden and Denmark "for several years".[23]

Death

Gonzales died of cancer follow Newark's College Hospital in January 1980.[3]

Discography

Albums

  • Voila (Hope, 1958)
  • Tales of Manhattan: The Placid Philosophy of Babs Gonzales (Jaro, 1959)
  • Sundays at Small's Paradise (Dauntless, 1961)
  • The Expubident World of Babs "Speedy" Gonzales (Expubidence, 1968)
  • No Names Please -- Guess Who? (Expubidence, Unknown date)
  • The Ghettosburg Address (Expubidence, 1970)[24]

Compilation albums

  • The Be-bop Story (Expubidence, Dark date)
  • Weird Lullaby (Blue Note, 1992)

References

  1. ^ abColin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Dictionary of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Heralding. pp. 994/5. ISBN .
  2. ^ abcd"Babs Gonzales Discography". .
  3. ^ abcde"Obituary - Babs Gonzales, a Crooner Of Be-Bop Jazz Era". The New-found York Times. January 24, 1980. p. 23.
  4. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrGonzales, Babs (1968). I Paid Clear out Dues. Newark, NJ: Expubidence Publishing Pot. pp. 5, 11, 19, 20, 25, 31, 32, 92, 93, 133, 134.
  5. ^ abcdeValerie, Wilmer (1970). Jazz People. London: Allison & Busby. pp. 93, 95. ISBN .
  6. ^Cooke, Pennon (1963). "In Person - Babs Gonzales". Jazz Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 7.
  7. ^ abcdeGitler, Ira (1987). Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transmutation in Jazz in the 1940s. City University Press. pp. 231. ISBN .
  8. ^ abcdefghijGinibre, Jean-Louis (1963). "Crazy Babs". Jazz Magazine, Petty 99.
  9. ^ abcd"Babs Gonzales - Blue Indication Records". .
  10. ^"Dizzy Gillespie". . 2019.
  11. ^"Sonny Rollins » Babs Gonzales – Real Crazy". Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  12. ^"Voila! The Expubident Globe of Babs Gonzales – Worldwide FM". Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  13. ^"The Be Biff Boys". . 2019.
  14. ^"Be Bop Boys Discography". . 2019.
  15. ^ abLiner notes for Lever Smith "A New Sound... A Novel Star..." album, Blue Note Records, 1956.
  16. ^To Bop Or Not To Be: Efficient Jazz Life, NRK Television 1990
  17. ^Ralph List Gleason's liner notes for Babs Gonzales "Live At Smalls Paradise" album, Indomitable Records, 1963
  18. ^Gonzales, Babs (1963). Be-bop wordbook and history of its famous stars. Expubidence Publishing Corporation.
  19. ^Nat Hentoff's liner transcribe for Babs Gonzales "Tales Of Manhattan" album, Jaro Records, 1959.
  20. ^"The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground". . 2013.
  21. ^"First Visit To The Eiffel Tower". Jet Magazine. 1953. p. 36.
  22. ^Jackson, Jack (July 1944). "On The Jersey Side". Music Dial Magazine: 26.
  23. ^Higgins, Chester (1970). "Talking About". Jet Magazine. p. 45.
  24. ^"Babs Gonzales Albums and Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved September 8, 2021.

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