Don Cinderella - A Badass Walking MOFO!!!

[JSngry]

Only heard him on the Jacy Parker Verve side (obscuritus maximius/thankgodimus forbloggimus), but DAMN!!!

 

I'm not of the "now THIS is how you make a groove" school, but this is definitely one way to make a groove.

 

Don Cinderella, y'all DON CINDERELLA!!!

 

HELL YEAH!!!

[Harold_Z]

unfortunately gone since sometime in the 80s. I heard him play many times. Great.

[JSngry]

so Harold, was he just recorded really well on that Jacy Parker side, or did he really have one of those old-school fat-ass sounds with all kinds of "air" in it, the kind of thing that makes playing over it like walking on air?

Alos, I guess he "stayed local" during most of his career, eh?

[Harold_Z]

He definitely had that great sound.

He pretty much stayed local. I actually never heard a record by him. I remember he was house bassist at the "Clifton Tap Room" in the 60s. It was one of those gigs where the house band backed a different name each week and because of the close proximity to NYC it was easy to get the names in.

[JSngry]

Per AMG: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...0nfoxqualdfe~T1

Don Cinderella, on the other hand, seems to have dropped out of the music business entirely sometime in the late '60s. Discographies of jazz recording activity have tracked him to three sessions in the first half of that decade. One of these involves backing up the obscure jazz singer Jacy Parker, who created one album for Verve entitled Spotlight on Jacy Parker. The bassist is heard here as part of a rhythm section that also features the well-prepared drummer Sticks Evans. Another rare LP featuring the bassist was a jazz piano session highlighting the tinkling of keyboard maestro Jack Gamba. As for actually collaborating with his brother, a 1959 tour with saxophonist Gil Melle featured both brothers in the band.

AMG show the drummer on the Gamba side as being Paul Motian. Hmmmm..... Who is/was Jack Gamba & what was Paul Motian playing while with him?

AMG also does not give the third album on which he allegedly appears.

[Harold_Z]

Don't know Jack Gamba's name, but I'm going to ask some of the older guys if they know of him.