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Gene (Eugene Salvatore Patrick) Dinovi. Pianist, composer, singer, b Brooklyn, 26 May 1928. He began his career as a teenaged bebop pianist in jazz clubs along New York's fabled 52nd Street and played for several bandleaders (Henry Jerome, Joe Marsala, Boyd Raeburn, Stan Hasselgard, and others) in the late 1940s. He recorded as a sideman to Benny Goodman (for Capitol), Brew Moore (Savoy), Aaron Sachs (Manor), Artie Shaw (Columbia), and Lester Young (Alladin) in this period. A popular accompanist with singers, DiNovi played in the early 1950s for Peggy Lee and Tony Bennett, and 1955-63 for Lena Horne, latterly on an intermittent basis.

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Too Marvelous for Words

By Peggy Lee

Label: Peggy Lee
Released: 2026
Track listing: Too Marvelous for Words; My Ideal; My Future Just Passed; Somebody Loves Me; I Never Knew; Taking a Chance on Love; I May Be Wrong (But I Think You Are Wonderful); ’Deed I Do; Button Up Your Overcoat; You’re Mine, You; Mean to Me; What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry?; Try a Little Tenderness; I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good); I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; Don’t Worry ’Bout Me; Let’s Call It a Day; It’s a Good Day; Oh, What a Beautiful Morning; Mountain Greenery; The Surrey with the Fringe on Top; People Will Say We’re in Love; Almost Like Being in Love; The Best Things in Life Are Free; Let There Be Love; Come Rain or Come Shine; Fools Rush In; My Romance; We Kiss in a Shadow; Speak Low; What’s New?; Bye Bye Blackbird; Autumn in New York; I Feel a Song Coming On; You; Me; From This Moment On; Them There Eyes; That Old Black Magic; You Do Something to Me; I Get a Kick Out of You; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Love Me or Leave Me; Just One of Those Things; Sans Souci; Hard-Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah); It Ain’t Necessarily So; Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive.

Article: Album Review

Peggy Lee: Too Marvelous for Words

Read "Too Marvelous for Words" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 30, 2026

“Every musician in town wanted that gig... She got whoever she wanted, because she was so good." --pianist Lou Levy, as quoted by James Gavin in Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee (Atria Books, 2014) Born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1920, Peggy Lee ...

News: Interview

Interview: Gene DiNovi

April 3, 2023

After my post on pianist Gene DiNovi in March, I included my email with hopes that Gene or his family would reach out so I could interview him. Joe Lang put me in touch with his daughter, who put me in touch with his wife and Gene. We had a lovely Zoom conversation. Gene is a ...

News: Video / DVD

Gene DiNovi, Today and Yesterday

March 2, 2023

Gene DiNovi is a gorgeous jazz pianist. One of the early New York players in the mid-1940s who had figured out bop, DiNovi at 15 was pulled up to the bandstand at the Spotlite Club on 52nd Street by Dizzy Gillespie in 1944 to play bop behind him when his pianist went missing. Then Charlie Parker ...

Album

The Three Optimists at the Old Mill

By Gene DiNovi

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2007

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Souvenir: Gene DiNovi Plays The Music Of Benny Carter

By Gene DiNovi

Label: Hep Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Horizon; Wonderland; Souvenir; When Lights Are Low; There Where The Warm Wind Blows; Only Trust Your Heart; People Time; Superstar; Blues In My Heart; I See You; Conversation. (all compositions by Benny Carter except Conversation which is by Gene DiNovi). (69:10)

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Article: Album Review

Gene DiNovi: Souvenir: Gene DiNovi Plays The Music Of Benny Carter

by Mike Neely
November 1, 2001

Souvenir is an elegant solo piano recording that pays tribute to one of the great jazz composers of our time, Benny Carter. The pianist, Gene DiNovi, has chosen ten of Carter’s compositions, ranging from the 1930s to the 1990s, and has woven each in a subtle tapestry of long, graceful lines. DiNovi’s left hand is one ...