Flip Nuñez

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Joseph "Flip" Nuñez (born August 27, 1931 in Stockton ; † November 3, 1995 in San Pablo (California) ) was an American jazz musician ( piano , vocals , also e-piano , organ , synthesizer , composition ) who was mostly active in the music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area .

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Nuñez, who had Filipino roots, grew up in San Pedro , Southern California , where he began performing professionally at the age of 17, playing with R&B musicians such as Big Jay McNeely and Joe Houston . He performed in the clubs of Central Avenue in Los Angeles a. a. with Eric Dolphy . In 1960 he moved to San Francisco, where he was henceforth active in the local jazz scene. I.a. He played in the house band in Jimbo's Bop City and had engagements in nightclubs (such as the Executive Lounge and Keystone Korner ) as well as in hotels in the Bay Area. In 1960 he worked with the Pony Poindexter Quartet on Bev Kelly's album In Person . In the course of his career he has also appeared with Carmen McRae , Wes Montgomery , Harry Belafonte and Jon Hendricks ( In Person at the Trident , 1965).

In the early 1970s, Nuñez was an organist in the short-lived jazz-rock / Latin group Azteca . In 1976 he recorded the album My Own Time and Space under his own name , on which Pat Britt, Michael Howell, Tom Rutley, Vince Lateano and Willie Colón participated and played the electric piano, organ, clavinet and synthesizer on the Nunez. In later years he played with John Handy , with the singer Jo Canion ("Nothin 'Ever Changes My Love for You") and shortly before his death with the vibraphonist Herb Gibson . According to the discographer Tom Lord , he was in the field of jazz, he was involved in five recording sessions between 1960 and 1995. In the 1980s, Nuñez had engagements at Club Jigoku in the Japantown district , as well as at the Meridien Hotel. In his later years he performed in a duet with singer Madeline Eastman at Pearl's nightclub on Columbus Avenue. Nuñez wrote several jazz tracks including "See You Later", which was later sampled by Gilles Peterson .

Nuñez was considered a talented bop pianist, whose playing style reminded of the hard bop pianist Carl Perkins ; his vowel numbers (e.g. on the LP My Own Time and Space ) to Tony Bennett .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc Myers: Who was Flip Nuñez? August 24, 2017, accessed August 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ Don Alberts: A Diary of the Underdogs: Jazz in the 1960's in San Francisco . Lulu.com 2003, ISBN 978-0-557-23270-3
  3. ↑ Kathy Sloane: Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club . University of Indiana Press 2012, pp. XXIX
  4. ↑ With Noel Jewkes , piano, Flip Nunez, piano, Jerry Granelli , drums, Fred Marshall , double bass. See Billboard, Aug. 7, 1965
  5. ↑ In 2002 the album was re-released on P-Vine Records.
  6. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 25, 2017)
  7. ↑ Peter M. Jamero, Sr .: Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American , University of Washington Press 2011, p. 127
  8. ^ Contemporary Keyboard, Volume 3, Issues 7-11 . Keyboard Players International, 1977
personal data
SURNAME Nuñez, Flip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuñez, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton (California)
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1995
Place of death San Pablo (California)