Slim Gaillard was a fine bop musician with a good line in hep cat scattery as well as a tendency to slap a laugh out of his favourite subjects: food and language. He and bassist Bam Brown kicked up a fair bit of dust around the bop scene billing with Parker, Gillespie, Kerouac and injecting vout into a number of films from the forties onwards. His daughter, Janis, was married to Marvin Gaye.
The hipster anthem "Opera In Vout" was originally released in 1946 on the Clef lable, as four 78's, and has appeared on countless issues since. This album kicks off with those and includes most of his well known later Verve material. The cool cover has been wheeled out for a number of different releases but was originally, I think, the reverse side of the Clef set.
I've included the "Opera" performance as a single file and as 3 seperate tracks.
Co-incidentally, and I really didn't know this when did the Smiley Culture post, Slim Gaillard ALSO appeared in the film Absolute Beginners...
How Vouty is that?
Opera In Vout
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