Joe Derise

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Joe Derise (* 1925 or 1926; † June 24, 2002 in Shelton (Connecticut) ) was an American jazz singer , guitarist , pianist and arranger of swing and mainstream jazz .

Live and act

Derise became a band vocalist with Tommy Dorsey at the age of 21 and then worked from 1948-50 as guitarist, singer and arranger with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra ("Easy Does It", V-Disc , 1948). In the same year he recorded "You Can't Buy Happiness" in a duet with the singer Barbara Lynn . In the 50s he founded the formation Four Jacks and a Jill , with whom he toured the United States for several years. His future wife Patty Easton hid behind the pseudonym Jill ; the marriage was later divorced. In 1953 he recorded the LP Joe Derise Sings for Bethlehem Records , on which Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson played and he set standards like “ It Might as Well Be Spring ”, “ How Long Has This Been Going On? "Or" My Romance "interpreted. At the end of 1955 he recorded another album with the Australian Jazz Quintet . In the 1960s he recorded a single for Dayhill Records ("Let Me Concentrate" / "What Must I Do", # DH-2016).

The Algonquin Hotel at night

From 1969 to 1978 Derise toured with the Canadian Doo Wop vocal quartet The Diamonds (led by Phil Levitt and Ted Kowalski) as musical director and vocalist. In the course of his later career he recorded a number of albums under his own name for Audiophile Records from 1979 and worked mostly as a soloist in cabarets, restaurants and nightclubs such as The Ballroom and the Village Gate ; His last performance was in 1999 as a singer and pianist at the New York Algonquin Hotel . In the field of jazz , he was involved in thirty recording sessions between 1948 and 1986. .

Discographic notes

  • I'll Remember Suzanne (Inner City, 1979), et al. a. with Walt Levinsky , Joe Puma , Charles McCracken , Russ Savakus
  • House of Flowers (Audiophile, 1981), with Bill Popp
  • Blues Are Out of Town (Audiophile, 1985), with Bob Russell, Ben Seawell, Bruce Pearce (1983) and Louis Forestieri, Jim Mitchell , Bill Popp
  • Is Mad About You - The Joe Derise Ten Tette (Audiophile, 1986), with Roger Parrett, Spencer MacLeish, Danny Repole, Pat Perrone, Max Robinson, Frank Griffith, Bob Maness, Bill Popp, Winston Welch
  • The Jimmy Van Heusen Anthology, Volume 2 (Audiophile, 1987), dto.
  • Sings and Plays the Jimmy Van Heusen Anthology - Volume Four (Audiophile, 1989), with John Dooley, Winston Welch

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary (2002) in The New York Times
  2. ^ Billboard November 20, 1948
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 19, 2016)
  4. ↑ 458 West Broadway
personal data
SURNAME Derise, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1925 or 1926
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2002
Place of death Shelton (Connecticut)