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Gene DiNovi
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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.
Interview: Gene DiNovi
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 ...
Gene DiNovi, Today and Yesterday
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 ...
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)
Gene DiNovi: Souvenir: Gene DiNovi Plays The Music Of Benny Carter
by Mike Neely
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 ...
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