{"id":1921,"date":"2009-12-28T20:07:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2009-12-28T20:07:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:07:55","slug":"pollard_and_gibbs_1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/12\/pollard_and_gibbs_1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollard And Gibbs, 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Terry Pollard died <\/a>the other day, I scoured the internet in hopes of finding video of her playing. I had no luck. But moments ago, Mark Stryker of The Detroit Free Press<\/em> notified me that a clip has appeared on YouTube<\/em> of the pianist in Terry Gibbs’s quartet on The Tonight Show<\/em> in 1956. They play “Gibberish,” on the harmonic pattern of “Oh, Lady Be Good,” then a riotous vibes duet on the Charlie Parker blues “Now’s The Time” with Tonight Show<\/em> host Steve Allen accompanying on piano. This is an unexpected treasure.<\/p>\n

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In his accompanying e-mail, Stryker asks:<\/p>\n

… while her piano playing is really out of Bud<\/a>, after watching the clip a couple times, I hear some similarities with early Horace Silver<\/a> in the pinging evenness of her articulation, the blues allusions and the rumble in her left hand. Do you hear this or am I imagining — Blue Note trio Horace, when he was still playing long 8th note lines, before he distilled his right hand into short, jabbing ideas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, and I detect in Pollard’s work another derivative of Bud Powell’s influence, that of Hampton Hawes<\/a>. Pollard spent some time with Gibbs on the west coast when Hawes was at his peak.
\nBut, influences, schminfluences; she was an original.
\nPollard’s only album as a leader was a 10-inch vinyl LP on the Bethlehem label, \"Pollard.jpg\"<\/a>recorded in 1955, less than a year before the Tonight Show<\/em>\"Fagerquist.jpg\"<\/a> appearance. Her quintet included guitarist Howard Roberts and the brilliant trumpter Don Fagerquist. It was never reissued on a 12″ LP, much less on a CD. The 10-incher shows up on e-Bay and other web sites as an expensive auction item. But three tracks of the Terry Pollard<\/em> LP are included on this CD compilation<\/a> of performances by Fagerquist, who died in 1974 at the age of 46.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Terry Pollard died the other day, I scoured the internet in hopes of finding video of her playing. I had no luck. But moments ago, Mark Stryker of The Detroit Free Press notified me that a clip has appeared on YouTube of the pianist in Terry Gibbs’s quartet on The Tonight Show in 1956. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}