Peter Nero RIP

[Teasing the Korean]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/arts/music/peter-nero-dead.html?smid=url-share&fbclid=IwAR3Gp2q6oMjSv_GchAtGBR9giTX3qaJE_GjBhO2xvOIWJ3x0gwczWKu18zA

[Teasing the Korean]

During what I call the Great Vinyl Purge of the 1990s, I picked up at Princeton Record Exchange my one and only Peter Nero album, the soundtrack to Sunday in New York. Two of the tracks have that irresistible bustling metropolis sound.

 

 

Edited July 9, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[jazztrain]

I think that he lived on the same street that I did when I was a kid.  Of course, I had no idea who he was at the time.

[sgcim]

Dude had serious chops. I've had  thoughts about doing a chart on Sunday in NY, but hearing someone like Mel Torme corn it up just stops me from going over the line. The bridge is pretty weak, too.

I did one on a tune in the same groove by John Williams, because there wasn't a weak note in it, but SINY just doesn't call out to me enough.

Nero must have done something good with those chops, in a jazz vein. He was admired by Horowitz, Ray Charles, etc... RIP...

[soulpope]

R.I.P ....

[Big Beat Steve]

8 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/arts/music/peter-nero-dead.html?smid=url-share&fbclid=IwAR3Gp2q6oMjSv_GchAtGBR9giTX3qaJE_GjBhO2xvOIWJ3x0gwczWKu18zA

Paywall ...

 

But anyway ... Some recommended JAZZ listening here:

https://www.discogs.com/de/release/4131168-Bernie-Nerow-Trio-Bernie-Nerow-Trio

One of the few Mode originals I have in my stash of Mode LPs.

 

Edited July 9, 2023 by Big Beat Steve

[Teasing the Korean]

10 hours ago, sgcim said:

Nero must have done something good with those chops, in a jazz vein. He was admired by Horowitz, Ray Charles, etc... RIP...

It was an interesting time when jazz, pop, classical, and showbiz were all intertwined. Peter Nero was part of that phenomenon, as were, to varying degrees, Liberace, Oscar Levant, Errol Garner, Dave Brubeck, and Oscar Peterson.  It was probably a holdover from the Vaudeville ethos.  The socio-cultural factors that enabled this no longer exist.  Setting aside my own thoughts on Nero's playing, I acknowledge him as being a part of this vanished world.  

Shifting gears, which John Williams tune did you arrange?  I like a lot of Williams's 1960s stuff, but I check out at Star Wars.

[GA Russell]

RIP.  He a favorite of my mother's.

[Teasing the Korean]

Dope version of "Windmills of your Mind" played on the Moog.

 

[Daniel A]

This was one of my first "jazz" experiences at age 4-5:

 

Edited July 9, 2023 by Daniel A

[JSngry]

6 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

It was an interesting time when jazz, pop, classical, and showbiz were all intertwined. Peter Nero was part of that phenomenon, as were, to varying degrees, Liberace, Oscar Levant, Errol Garner, Dave Brubeck, and Oscar Peterson. 

Don't forget Andre Previn. 

[Teasing the Korean]

17 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Don't forget Andre Previn. 

Of course.  

[JSngry]

Ok, now that we've remembered him, let's forget him again. 

[Teasing the Korean]

18 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Ok, now that we've remembered him, let's forget him again. 

Well, there's the Doris Day album. And The Subterraneans.

[JSngry]

Doris Day could always win when she wanted to.