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Chelsea Bridge - Live in Concert

43.8K streams

43,816

Jazz Anthology (Original Recordings)

23.8K streams

23,793

Jazz After Midnight

23.1K streams

23,073

Tony 100 (100 Original Tracks)

21K streams

20,979

Jazz Box (The Jazz Series)

18K streams

18,006

The Jazz Collection

17.3K streams

17,312

Tony Crombie & Ronnie Scott at the Roy...

15.8K streams

15,768

Sweet Wide & Blue

2.4K streams

2,404

Penthouse Party

1.2K streams

1,158

Tony Crombie and His Sweet Beat (Remas...

Biography

Tony Crombie was a highly respected British drummer, composer, and bandleader without whom the British bebop scene might have swung as little as an iron pillar. Then again, there are many listeners who would be more interested in the soundtracks Crombie created for serious art films such as Teenager Killer and The Nudist Story. Blame Crombie's mama for this interest in combining music and the cinema, perhaps -- after all, she was a silent film pianist. Crombie taught himself both drums and piano and began his career as an accompanist for singers; in the early '50s he was backing some of the most challenging jazz vocalists to tour the United Kingdom, including Lena Horne, Carmen McRae, and Annie Ross. Crombie started his own band, Tony Crombie & the Rockets (which worked from 1954 through 1956), as well a big band of his own at the close of the decade. He was very skilled at combining his love of jazz with pop innovations of the '50s and '60s, creating a charismatic and at times action-packed scenario that to no surprise developed into a blip on the lounge and exotica fans' radar. Crombie scored nearly 40 episodes alone of the Man from Interpol television series. He had his own publishing company, Gloucester Music, and released albums with his own band on labels such as Ember, Top Rank, and Decca. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi