Tells Fairy Tales For Hip Kids
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Released 27/11/08. 'Jazzbo' Collins defined a whole new way of presenting a music radio show. His speciality was cool and sophisticated jazz and he was one of the very first DJs to adopt an intimate, conversational approach peppered with hipster slang and outrageous verbal improvisation. In 1953, comedian Steve Allen wrote a piece for Down Beat in which he retold the story of Red Riding Hood in the hip argot of jazz, just as Lord Buckley funked up Shakespeare and the Bible. When Jazzbo read it out over the air in his best hipsterish storytelling tones the response from the public was fantastic and a hit single was inevitable the consequence. Subsequent releases found Jazzbo tapping into the modern obsession with flying saucers and all things 'far out'. In 1955 he also participated in a live recording called East Coast Jazz Scene, (that forms the second half of our edition) on which he interpolated comments between performances by a handpicked selection of some of New York's finest, including the great tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.Tickets for the gig were made available only to listeners of his radio show who wrote in: needless to say the place was packed.
 Al Jazzbo Collins-Fairy Tales For Hip Kids- Little Red Riding Hood / Three Little Pigs / Jack And The Beanstalk / Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs / The Invention Of The Airplane / The Discovery Of America / Pee Little Thrigs / Little Hood Riding Red / Sam / Max / Jazzbo's Theory / Al "Jazzbo" Collins Presents The East Coast Jazz Scene - Larry Sonn And His All-Star Band – Zanzy / Larry Sonn And His All-Star Band – Ida Bridges Falling Down / Gene Quill And His Quintet - Flying Down To Rio / Gene Quill And His Quintet - The Things We Did Last Summer / Gene Quill And His Quintet - Darn That Dream / Don Elliot And His Quintet – Impressions / Coleman Hawkins And His Quintet - Foolin' Around / Coleman Hawkins And His Quintet - The Man I Love / Tony Fruscella's Quartet - Tony's Blues
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