Artist: Bob Dorough
Genre(s):
Pop
Discography:
Songs of Love
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Just About Everything
Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Although neglected and underexposed well-nigh of his life, Bob Dorough is an adventurous, risk-taking master of vocalese (the process of writing and vocalizing lyrics to instrumental jazz solos) and scat singing tattle world Health Organization has straight or indirectly influenced Mark Murphy, Michael Franks, Mose Allison, and Kurt Elling. The Arkansas native started out on piano in the 1940s, then took up singing in the early '50s (when he played for packer Sugar Ray Robinson, an entertainer at the clip). From 1954-1955, Dorough lived in Paris, where he recorded with isaac Bashevis Singer Blossom Dearie. The improviser launched his have recording career when he sign-language with Bethlehem in 1955 and recorded the splendid Dickens May Care, which introduced the defiant statute title song and lyrics to Charlie Parker's "Con Suite." But deplorably, he recorded only periodically afterward that. In 1962, Dorough co-wrote "Comin' Home Baby" (a hit for Mel Tormé) with Ben Tucker, and in 1966, he recorded his sec album, Just About Everything, for Focus. In the early '70s, he began penning and directive the serial publication of educational children's TV programs, School Rock. Though instructional material became his bread and butter, Dorough recorded obscure jazz dates for 52 Rue East, Orange Blue, Pinnacle, Boomdido, Laissez-Faire, and other midget labels in the seventies and 1980s. In 1997, a 73-year-old Dorough received some long-overdue aid from a major tag when the Capitol-distributed Blue Note released Right on My Way Home. Too Much Coffee Man followed in the bound of 2000. His Sunday brunch residence at New York's Iridium baseball club culminated in 2004's live offering William Ashley Sunday at Iridium and, at a sprightly 82 years of age, Dorough traveled to England for a series of live dates. The duty tour culminated in a recording academic session that spawned the wizard Small Day Tomorrow album in 2006.
