• Awards. Gelly is also a jazz saxophonist and broadcaster, presenting a number of shows for BBC Radio 2 including Night Owls for much of the 1980s. Gelly was...
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    London) is an English vocalist, pianist and keyboardist. Jazz critic Dave Gelly of The Observer has described her as "one of the most stylistically flexible...
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    Baker Sings (1954) and It Could Happen to You (1958). Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Baker's early career as "James Dean, Sinatra...
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    SERIES At Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway World, retrieved 26 April 2022 Dave Gelly (30 October 2021), "Pasquale Grasso: Pasquale Plays Duke review – boggling...
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  • him: "He kind of sprang from the womb knowing the rudiments of bebop"), Dave Gelly, John Hart and Jonathan Lynn. As Spike Wells has written, "by 1962, the...
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  • the vocalese style of jazz singing, with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a kind of dreamy watchfulness that is a definition of 1950s hip."...
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  • musicians in London, including Ian Carr, Jon Hiseman, Barbara Thompson, Dave Gelly, Mike Gibbs, Don Rendell, and Trevor Tomkins. In the late 1960s, encouraged...
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    Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker. DaCapo Press, p. 186 Gelly 2007, p. 1. Gelly 2007, p. 3. Gioia, Ted (2011). The History of Jazz (2 ed.). New...
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    mainstream-jazz language and his wide-ranging technical facility are pronounced." Dave Gelly of The Guardian suggested in his review of Future Stride that it “has...
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  • occasionally recorded sessions for BBC Radio Two's "Night Owls", hosted by Dave Gelly. His one solo album, 1988's The Secret City, is on the same axis as Don...
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