Jazz Musician David Allyn Mentions the New Yorker

clipped from www.allaboutjazz.com JW: What did Raeburn think? DA: I knocked Boyd out. This was at the New Yorker Hotel. He hired me on the spot, and then the band went out to California. David Allyn is a singer’s singer. All jazz vocalists with a heart have a tender spot for David’s warm, passionate baritone. Leading arrangers and jazz musicians from the 1940s and 1950s, including Johnny Mandel , Hal McKusick , Joe Wilder and others who came up during this era, also love David’s voice and intonation. Before Chet Baker, before Johnny Hartman and before Jackie Paris, David pioneered the sensitive male ballad, and his confessional phrasing remains remarkable today. [Photo: David Allyn, left, with Jack Teagarden at the 1959 Playboy Jazz Festival]

~ by petrosianii on October 26, 2009.