Al "Jazzbo" Collins
Albert Richard " Al Jazzbo " Collins, jazz Beaux Collins, ( born January 4, 1909 in Rochester, New York, † 30 September 1997 in Marine County, California ) was an American disc jockey of jazz and radio and television presenter.
Life
Collins grew up in Long Iceland, and attended the University of Miami in 1941 to become a teacher. As an announcer on the radio program of the campus, he came up with the idea, not to go to the radio and broke off his studies. About stopovers in Logan ( West Virginia) ( in a transmitter for bluegrass music), Pittsburgh, Chicago and Salt Lake City, he came in 1950 to New York City, where he was news program Monitor on NBC on radio station WNEW, and from 1955 on the radio. At WNEW, he had to send a then exciting jazz program in which he claimed from a cavernous studio called Purple Grotto deep under Manhattan, populated with a 176 years old, purple, Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck adoring Tasmanian owl named Harrison, a flamingo Leah (who liked music to fly by ), the Dixieland -loving crow Clyde and the female Chameleon and Swing fan Jukes, who inhabited one designed by Dr.Caligari Jukebox. Was underlaid his moderation ( with favorite themes besides jazz like fast cars, flying saucers and cuisine ) easy listening piano performances by Nat King Cole. In the program, among other Art Tatum occurred ( six months Live) and Count Basie Orchestra with.
Short term he was five weeks in 1957 hosted the Tonight Show on NBC television station in place of Steve Allen. In 1959 he moved to the west coast to San Francisco, where he had a radio show Collins on the clouds at KSFO and a TV morning show, The Al Collins show at KGO - TV, in which he, his guests, some of which he brought from the street interviewed in a barber chair and briefly occur in Mexican bandit costume made with a set of the Treasure of the Sierra Madrevon John Huston. After that he was in the 1960s at various radio stations in Los Angeles. From 1969 he was in Pittsburgh, where he had his own television show Jazzbeauxz Rehearsal also from 1973. From 1976 he was back in San Francisco, where he worked for KGO. He changed several times between California and New York City, where he moderated 1981-1983 and 1986 -1990 again for WNEW. Most recently, he had a weekly jazz program for the station KCSM the College of San Mateo in California, turn from his Purple Grotto. He died of pancreatic cancer.
His name Jazzbo, he had since his time in Chicago at the transmitter WIND and 1969 moved to Jazz Beaux ( and submit it as the official name was ), he had the name of clip-on ties, which were fashionable in hipster jazz circles in the 1940s. The outward appearance of the obese Collins wore a goatee a la Dizzy Gillespie, he was also optically with glasses and ( sometimes ) Basque beret close. In the U.S., he also had their own fan following after his death ( Al's Pal's ).
He also published some plates with his hipster -talk, so in 1953 for Brunswick Records ( among other things with his hit Little Red Riding Hood - a Grimm fairy tale for hip kids from the text by Steve Allen in Downbeat with Lou Stein on piano, over 750,000 times sold ), 1954 for Capitol Records ( Collins committed after the success of its own copywriter for more Fairy Tales for Hip Kids, like Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk ), 1967 a lovely bunch of Al Jazzbo Collins (of Jazzbo and the Bandidos, with Steve Allen, Terry Gibbs ) and 1983 for the label Doctor Jazz by Bob Thiele again with Steve Allen ( Steve Allen's Hip Fables, with Slim Gaillard, who also contributed translations in Spanish fake, Ray Mantilla ). In 1955, he was also involved as a presenter at a radio station sponsored by his live recording East Coast Jazz Scene, among others, with Coleman Hawkins and Gene Quill, who also appeared as a plate.