Pete Jolly

[Jazz Kat]

What a fantastic pianist! I have his Give a Damn lp. I like it a lot. I especially love his playing. He swings and is very nice to listen to. In that respect he's similar to Guaraldi. My two favorite pianists. I want to get Herb Alpert Presents Pete Jolly, as well as all his other albums. Anybody heard some of those?

Edited January 8, 2007 by Jazz Kat

[jazzbo]

I agree, he was a fantastic player. I have all the VSOP cds I believe I have them all. And a few others.

He definitely swung like there was no tomorrow!

[Allan Songer]

Killer Atlas LP with Art Pepper

[(BB)]

Jolly Jumps In is always good if you need a fix of swingin' accordian.

[sidewinder]

Jolly Jumps In is always good if you need a fix of swingin' accordian.

Eureka - of course !

BFT #43 Disk 1

[brownie]

In that respect he's similar to Guaraldi. My two favorite pianists. I want to get Herb Alpert Presents Pete Jolly, as well as all his other albums. Anybody heard some of those?

I have that Alpert/Jolly LP. Bought a promotional copy dirt cheap. Played it once and filed it with other albums I'm not really happy with! Much too tame piano paying.

I keep his RCA (and other) albums.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

chewy chew chew has the galaxy set from the library out now- 6 cds. in it is a sweet pic of pete jollys roadster vehicle

[RDK]

Jolly Jumps In is always good if you need a fix of swingin' accordian.

Eureka - of course !

BFT #43 Disk 1

As soon as I saw this thread I was dreading it...

[brownie]

A favorite Pete Jolly moment is his accordion playing on 'My Man's Gone Now' from Buddy Collette's 'Modern Interpretations of Porgy & Bess' on Interlude. This was resurrected in a Jim Hall Lonehill CD 'The Unreleased Sessions'!

[Peter Friedman]

One of the last recordings Pete Jolly made was a duo piano recording on Fresh Sound with the excellent Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren. It is titled COLLABORATION, and has Chuck Berghofer and Joe Labarbera on bass and drums. It's a marvelous CD.