Showing posts with label Art Van Damme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art Van Damme. Show all posts
Sunday, September 19, 2021
The Art Van Damme Quintet • Martini Time [1955] Columbia Records CL 630
Born April 9th, 1920 in Norway, Michigan, and brought up in Chicago, Art Van Damme took up the piano accordion in 1929 at the age of nine and was classically trained before discovering jazz as a teenager – inspired by the recordings of Benny Goodman. In 1941 he joined Ben Bernie's band as an accordionist, then from 1945 to 1960, he worked for NBC, performing on ‘The Dinah Shore Show’, ‘Tonight’, ‘The Dave Garroway Show’, and other radio and TV shows with Garroway.
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