Larry!

 

OSCAR PETERSON with NHØ PEDERSEN & RAY BROWN at Montreux 1977​

 

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I have been checking posts to see whether Beggs had been named. Because he is usually underrated. He is surely more than that but hiss bass line for the Too Shy was genius and hints about his abilities

 

No love for Sid?

 

You just can't beat Oscar and Ray!

Steve Wallace

@phloopy This cat is rare but he cooks. Couldn't find many vids but I've seen him live -always top notch

https://www.uoftjazz.ca/steve-wallace

Steve has played with a dazzling array of jazz artists in clubs, at jazz festivals and on tour. These include a veritable “who’s who” of Jazz: Zoot Sims, Clark Terry, Pepper Adams, Herb Ellis, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Ray Bryant, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Scott Hamilton, Barney Kessel, Clifford Jordan, Red Rodney, Curtis Fuller, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, George Coleman – the list goes on and on.

In 1981, Steve toured the Soviet Union with Vancouver-based saxophonist, Fraser MacPherson. The success of this tour resulted in two more Soviet tours in 1984 and 1986. In 1983, he joined Rob McConnell’s acclaim

ed big band “The Boss Brass” and has recorded and toured with them extensively. He was also a member of McConnell’s Tentet from its inception in 1998.

In 1985, he replaced bassist George Duvivier on a tour of Europe, Japan, and Australia with the “Woody Herman All-Stars”, which included Al Cohn, Buddy Tate, Harry “Sweets” Edison, John Bunch and Jake Hanna.


Steve toured Japan again in 1987, this time with the “Concord All-Stars” (Scott Hamilton, Warren Vaché, Red Holloway, Dan Barrett, Dave McKenna, Ed Bickert, and Jimmy Smith). While in Tokyo, this band recorded two live albums.

In 1988-89, Steve again toured Japan, Europe and the U.S.A. as a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio. He played the Cork Guinness Festival in Ireland and toured Spain in 1989 with the trio of pianist Oliver Jones.


Steve has recorded over 75 albums with artists including Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme, The Boss Brass, (winning the 1983 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Album of the Year), Ed Bickert, Scott Hamilton, Oliver Jones, Fraser MacPherson and many others. He currently resides in Toronto, maintains a busy playing schedule and has recently accompanied such artists as Lee Konitz, Ann Hampton-Calloway, Guido Basso, Eric Reed, Lew Tabackin, and Carol Sloane. In 2015, he was part of the Toronto band (along with Kevin Turcotte, David Braid and Terry Clarke) which played the soundtrack composed by Braid for “Born To Be Blue”, a Canadian-U.K. film about Chet Baker, starring Ethan Hawke.

 

Hahaha could be worse

 

Also see this cool ass mofo

Rustee Allen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustee_Allen

 

Norman Watt-Roy

 

Billy Sheehan


John Pattitucci