Slim Gaillard


 * Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (1916-1991) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor whose career lasted from the 1930s to the late 1980s. He is best known for his creation of a musical style based on the swing and bebop jazz of the 1930s and 1940s, but combined with comedy expressed in a personal language ("Vout") which added a surrealist element to the hipster jive talk of the time. Songs popularised by him include "Flat Foot Floogie" and "Cement Mixer" and he enjoyed enough commercial success to gain his own radio series in the 1940s and appear in a number of films, including the 1943 Hellzapoppin'. At the same time he was respected by jazz musicians, working with small groups including the bassists Slam Stewart (Slim and Slam) and Bam Brown, and he also recorded with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie at the height of the bebop revolution.
 * Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road (1957) contains a description of a performance by Slim Gaillard, but at the time of the book's publication Gaillard's career was on the wane, although as a consummate entertainer he also recorded in R&B style and appeared on US TV in the '50s. He made a comeback in later years initially as an actor in American TV series and then, like many jazz musicians of his era, began to play the European jazz festival circuit. His British appearances were received with such enthusiasm that he decided to settle in the UK in 1983, performing regularly in jazz clubs and at festivals and being profiled on a number of TV programmes; but unlike many of his contemporaries he also succeeded in attracting a younger audience.
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