Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Jazzbo
In Mad 31 (February, 1957), Wood illustrated "What's All This Jazz About Jazz?" Al "Jazzbo" Collins was a recording artist (A Lovely Bunch of Al Jazzbo Collins, Impulse, 1967) and New York/San Francisco disc jockey who broadcast from his phantasmagoric Purple Grotto. In 1969 he changed the spelling of his name to Jazzbeaux. This Mad feature appeared the same year that Jazzbo was the host of NBC's Tonight Show (during the interim period between Steve Allen and Jack Paar).
©2006 EC Publications ¶ 8:13 AM
In Mad 31 (February, 1957), Wood illustrated "What's All This Jazz About Jazz?" Al "Jazzbo" Collins was a recording artist (A Lovely Bunch of Al Jazzbo Collins, Impulse, 1967) and New York/San Francisco disc jockey who broadcast from his phantasmagoric Purple Grotto. In 1969 he changed the spelling of his name to Jazzbeaux. This Mad feature appeared the same year that Jazzbo was the host of NBC's Tonight Show (during the interim period between Steve Allen and Jack Paar).©2006 EC Publications ¶ 8:13 AM
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The Mad/Wood/Jazzbo piece remains, for this reader, a high point in postwar American art.
Dave Pells lives.
In fact, I think he is still living!
Gotta Google him!
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Dave Pells lives.
In fact, I think he is still living!
Gotta Google him!
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