Cover photo: Charles Stewart Notes by: Ralph J. Gleason

“A wild, swinging, demoniac, funky, hilarious, way-out, continental, down home, home-cooked, volatile, expoobident, grooy, bombastic, stoned, risque, hip, incredible, orgiastic, superstitious, finger-popping, rabelasian, didactic, crowd-pleasing, recherche, humanitarian, nitty gritty, spontaneous, unspeakable Sunday Afternoon with Babs Gonzales at Small’s Paradise (1963) on Dauntless records.

Babs Gonzales (vocalist and raconteur) with Johnny Griffin (tenor sax), Clark Terry (trumpet and flugelhorn), Horace Parlan (piano), Buddy Catlett (bass), Ben Riley (drums).

Babs passed away in 1980 in his home in New Jersey. Try to find his book “I, Paid My Dues.” (Good times – no bread, a story of jazz). Expubidence Publishing Corp., East Orange, NJ. 1967.

(9 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

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