Sy Oliver

Sy Oliver from September 1946
Background information
Birth name Melvin Oliver
Born (1910-12-17)December 17, 1910
Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, United States
Died May 28, 1988(1988-05-28) (aged 77)
Genres Bandleader, conductor
Years active 1930s - 1980s
Labels Columbia, Capitol
Associated acts Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra

Melvin "Sy" Oliver (December 17, 1910 in Battle Creek, Michigan – May 28, 1988 in New York City) was a jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader. His mother was a piano teacher and his father was a multi-instrumentalist who made a name for himself demonstrating saxophones at a time that instrument was little used outside of marching bands.

Oliver left home at 17 to play with Zack Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels and later with Alphonse Trent. He sang and played trumpet with these bands, becoming known for his "growling" horn playing.

Sy arranged and conducted many songs for Ella Fitzgerald from her Decca years.

As a composer, one of his most famous songs was T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) which he co-wrote with Trummy Young.

He joined Jimmie Lunceford's band in 1933 and contributed many hit arrangements to the band, including "My Blue Heaven" and "Ain't She Sweet". In 1939, he became one of the first African Americans with a prominent role in a white band when he joined Tommy Dorsey as an arranger, though he ceased playing trumpet at that time. (Fletcher Henderson joined the Benny Goodman orchestra as the arranger in the same year.) He led the transition of the Dorsey band from Dixieland to modern big band. His joining was instrumental in Buddy Rich's decision to join Dorsey. His arrangement of "On the Sunny Side of the Street" was a big hit for Dorsey, as were his own compositions "Yes Indeed" (a gospel-jazz tune that was later recorded by Ray Charles), "Opus One," "The Minor is Muggin'," "T.D.'s Boogie Woogie," and "Well, Git It."

After leaving Dorsey, Oliver continued working as a free-lance arranger---one of his more successful such efforts was the Frank Sinatra album I Remember Tommy, a combined tribute to each man's former boss---and as music director for Decca Records.

In later years, up until 1980, he led his own jazz band, for which he took up the trumpet again.

Selected discography [link]

  • For Jimmie Lunceford:
    • Stomp it Off (1934-1935 Decca recordings) (GRP CD)
    • Swingsation (1935-1939 Decca recordings) (1998 GRP CD)
    • Lunceford Special (1939 Columbia recordings) (ca 1975 Columbia LP)
    • Rhythm is Our Business (1933–1940, both periods and record companies, successively) (ASV CD)
  • For Tommy Dorsey:
    • Yes, Indeed! (1939-1945 RCA recordings) (Bluebird CD)
    • The Popular Frank Sinatra, Vol. 1, with the Pied Pipers (1940-1941 RCA recordings) (Bluebird CD)
  • For Ella Fitzgerald:
    • Ella: The Legendary Decca Recordings (1938-1955 Decca recordings) (GRP 4-CD box)
  • Under his own name:
    • Sway it with flowers'(1958 Decca)
    • Sentimental Sy' (1958 Dot)
    • Backstage (1959 Dot)
    • I can get it for you wholesale (1962 Columbia)
    • Easy walker (1962 Sesac)
    • Take me back ! (1972 Flac)
    • Yes Indeed ! (1973 Black and Blue)
    • Above all (1976)

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External links [link]


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Slow Burn

Slow Burn or Slowburn may refer to:

Films

  • Slow Burn (2005 film), film by Wayne Beach starring Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock and LL Cool J
  • Slow Burn (1986 film), film by Matthew Chapman starring Eric Roberts and Johnny Depp
  • Slow Burn (2000 film), film by Christian Ford starring Minnie Driver, James Spader and Josh Brolin

    • Songs

  • "Slow Burn" (Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies song), 1994 song by the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies
  • Slow Burn (David Bowie song), 2002 song by David Bowie
  • Slowburn (Code Orange song) (Second track from 2014 album I Am King)
  • Slow Burn (T.G. Sheppard song), 1983 single by T.G. Sheppard
  • Slow Burn (Atreyu song), 2007 song by Atreyu
  • Slowburn (Rev Theory song), 2005 song by Rev Theory (formerly known as Revelation Theory)
  • Slowburn (Corey Hart song), 1990 song by Corey Hart
  • Slowburn (Peter Gabriel song), 1977 song by Peter Gabriel
  • Slow to Burn, 1996 solo album by Vanessa Daou

    • Other

  • Slowburn (band), 1990's Canadian alternative rock band from Vancouver
  • Slow Burn (Heroes), mini-series of the TV show Heroes webisodes, as well as the accompanying iStory
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    Slow Burn (David Bowie song)

    "Slow Burn" is a song by English musician David Bowie. It was released as the lead single from his twenty-second studio album, Heathen, on 3 June 2002. The song was not released as a single in the UK. There was no British single from Heathen released until September, with Everyone Says 'Hi'. The recording features Pete Townshend on guitar. The song earned Bowie a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Male Vocal Performance.

    Music video

    A music video for Slowburn was uploaded to the official DavidBowieVEVO YouTube channel on 23 March 2011. The video shows Bowie dressed in white performing the vocals to the song in a recording studio booth, with a young girl wandering around the darkened control room and occasionally touching the equipment and mixing desk. The video is an edited version of the song and no directing or other credits are given.

    Live versions

    The song was performed live on several TV shows in 2002, although was only performed during the first two dates of the Heathen Tour and during a promotional performance at Sony Music Studios in New York between those two dates.

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    Slow Burn (2000 film)

    Slow Burn is a 2000 drama film starring Minnie Driver, James Spader, Stuart Wilson, and Josh Brolin.

    Plot

    Trina (Driver) continues a family quest to find diamonds hidden deep in the desert long after her parents death. Her search comes to fruition when two escaped convicts (Spader and Brolin), having found the diamonds, stumble onto Trina's path. An old family friend (Wilson) watches events unfold from a distance.

    Cast

  • Minnie Driver as Trina McTeague
  • James Spader as Marcus
  • Stuart Wilson as Frank Norris
  • Josh Brolin as Duster
  • Chris Mulkey as Jacob McTeague
  • Caprice Benedetti as Catalina McTeague

    • References

    External links

  • Slow Burn at the Internet Movie Database


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    Podcasts:

    Sy Oliver

    ALBUMS

    Satchmo: The Louis Armstrong Collection

    Released 2011

    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

    Released 2008

    108 Classic Sides From a Great American Hitmaker

    Released 2007

    First Class Jazz

    Released 2006

    The Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1950

    Released 2001

    On the Sunny Side of the Street

    Released 2001

    The Great Ella Fitzgerald [Goldies]

    Released 1999

    Jazz Greats, Volume 53: Big Band Voices

    Released 1998

    Frank Sinatra & Friends

    Released 1998

    Duets

    Released 1997

    Smoke Dreams

    Released 1993

    Swing for a Crime

    Released 1992

    Jazz in the Charts 093 (1950-1951)

    Songs That Won the War: Swing Again, Yes Indeed!

    Decca: The Legendary Big Band Singers

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    Died: 1988-05-28

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    Slow Burn

    by: Mullmuzzler

    (Allman, Sloyer, Cadden-James, LaBrie)
    I feel my future
    Tied to my past
    Why don't we go and leave this world behind
    Watch me as I wonder
    Aimless through this mystery
    Counting all the times
    You've fallen to the cold
    You were always there for me
    Always said a prayer for me
    I'm drifting in time
    No reason I find
    You always come to my soul
    Somehow you believed
    There'd always be a season for us to behold
    I'm drifting in time
    No reason no rhyme
    You always come to my soul
    I've learned to believe
    So thank you for the slow burn you'be brought to my heart
    And you are the one
    Yes you are the one
    I have been too distant
    Sometimes just too far away
    Let me go and leave it all behind
    Sorry if I've hurt you
    Sorry for the time we've lost
    If you could just forgive me
    I'd bow down before you
    So that you could see I'm real
    So that you could hear these words
    I'm drifting in time
    No reason I find
    You always come to my soul
    Somehow you believed
    There'd always be a season for us to behold
    I'm drifting in time
    No reason no rhyme
    You always come to my soul
    I've learned to believe
    So thank you for the slow burn you'be brought to my heart
    And you are the one
    Yes you are the one
    I'm drifting in time
    No reason I find
    You always come to my soul
    Somehow you believed
    There'd always be a season for us to behold
    I'm drifting in time
    No reason no rhyme
    You always come to my soul
    I've learned to believe
    So thank you for the slow burn you'be brought to my heart
    And you are the one




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