Cy Touff: Keester Parade
Track
Keester Parade
Artist
Cy Touff (bass trumpet)
CD
West Coast Jazz: An Anthology of California Jazz (Contemporary 4425)
Musicians:
Cy Touff (bass trumpet), Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet), Conrad Gozzo (trumpet), Richie Kamuca (tenor sax), Matt Utal (baritone sax), Russ Freeman (piano), Leroy Vinnegar (bass), Chuck Flores (drums).
Recorded: Los Angeles, December 4, 1955
Rating: 85/100 (learn more)
In addition to its witty title and hummable melody, Johnny Mandel’s “Keester Parade” offers a full-sounding small-band arrangement and laid-back blues solos by cool tenorist Richie Kamuca, a veteran of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton orchestras, Harry “Sweets" Edison, a former Count Basie trumpet star, the peripatetic West Coast pianist Russ Freeman, and the leader himself, who performed on bass trumpet as a member of the trombone section of Woody Herman’s Third Herd. Leroy Vinnegar’s booming bass anchors the proceedings.
Reviewer: David Franklin
Tags: bass trumpet · west coast jazz
This was Frank Evans theme song on KRHM-FM in Los Angeles in the 1950's. Frank had an afternoon jazz show that was really great. I was in grammar school and it influenced my love of jazz.