Albert Norman Benedict "Norm" Amadio (April 14, 1928 – January 21, 2020) was a Canadian jazz pianist, piano teacher, music coach,
composer
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,
arranger
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,
session player
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, band leader and accompanist. For a span of fifty years he worked for the
CBC as an orchestra leader and musical director for many TV series. In 1956, he became the first and only Canadian to play at the original
Birdland in
New York City
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and while playing opposite
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based ...
.
Biography
Amadio was born in
Timmins
Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 (2021). The city's economy is based on natural resource ext ...
, Ontario.
[ Adam Feibel, "In memory of Norm Amadio, a central figure of Canadian jazz history", ''Jazz.FM'', January 22, 2020]
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concert with Gracie Fields
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, and was asked to travel on a Canadian tour; his parents denied him permission because of his age. At the age of 15, Norm really loved Art Tatum
Arthur Tatum Jr. (, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest in his field. From early in his career, Tatum's technical ability was regarded by fellow musicians as extraord ...
's playing. Soon after he found inspiration from Be-boppers such as Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form ...
, Bud Powell
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and Horace Silver
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
After playing tenor saxophone and piano at sch ...
. Norman eventually left Timmins for Toronto
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when he was 17 to study music with Boris Berlin
Boris Berlin (27 May 1907 – 24 March 2001) was a Canadian pianist, music educator, arranger, and composer of Russian birth. He is primarily remembered for his work within the field of piano pedagogy, having published an extensive amount of mate ...
at the Royal Conservatory for six months. He played jazz after hours, influenced by the be-bop pianists. Amadio was influential in starting the be-bop jazz music scene in Toronto, attracting many jazz notables from Canada and the US to sit in and work with him.
Amadio was a prominent figure in the late 1940s and early 1950s at the House of Hambourg in Toronto and subsequently became one of the city's leading accompanists and one of the most sought-after players in Toronto. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked at the main jazz venues in Toronto; The Towne Tavern, The Colonial, Bourbon Street, George's Spaghetti House from 1959-1963 and the First Floor Club with Don "D.T." Thompson's Be-Bop quintet. After working in the early 1950s in the lounge groups of Jim Younger, Chicho Valle Chicho is a Spanish male nickname. It can be a pet name for many different Spanish names, including Francisco and Narciso.
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, and Jimmy Amaro, he led the house band at the Old Towne Tavern for a nine-year stint during the 1950s and early 1960s. Word traveled to the U.S. about Amadio's playing and many American jazz superstars began to flock to Toronto. Among the American jazz greats who came to work with Norm Amadio's Trio in Toronto were Roy Eldridge
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, Stan Getz
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, Bill Harris, Coleman Hawkins
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, Zoot Sims
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, Ben Webster
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, Lester Young
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, Chet Baker, Anita O'Day
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, Bud Johnson, Lee Konitz
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, Sonny Stitt
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, Clark Terry
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, Howard McGee, Jimmy Witherspoon, Max Roach
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, Miles Davis
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, Carmen McRae
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, Joe Williams, Carol Sloane
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, Mel Torme
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, Dinah Washington
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, Red Mitchell
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, Phil Phillips
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, Maxine Sullivan
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, and Irene Krall.
"Norman Amadio, for instance (one of Canada's top jazz pianists), has been the quintessential musician, ever since he began to play in Toronto nightclubs in 1949. He played everywhere in small groups for a variety of leaders, on the CBC radio and in television, in recording studios, in theatres and concert halls, and as the leader of his own groups at jazz festivals."["They Loved To Play" Memories of the Golden Age of in Canadian Music by Murray Ginsberg 1998] Murray Ginsberg
Journalist Peter Goddard: "Amadio was an aggressive bebop player along the lines of Bud Powell when he first arrived on the Toronto scene in the 1940s. A precocious teen musical whiz from Timmins, he soon enough learned to keep his cool when others were losing theirs in the city’s turbulent club scene.
Reliability got him work. Unrivaled musicality gave him stature and clout. Jazz stars arriving in town — Carmen McRae
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, Miles Davis, Joe Williams or Jimmy Rushing
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— wanted him. Or even needed him, as the veteran American singer Maxine Sullivan once told me." ."
Norman's musical career went on to include a great deal of studio work and close to a hundred recordings for various Canadian artists such as Moe Koffman
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, Ray Back with the Ed Sullivan
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Orchestra, The Tommy Ambrose Orchestra, Don (D.T.) Thompson and most recently with Guido Basso
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, Marc Jordan Marc or MARC may refer to:
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, and many more.
Amadio's many recordings went largely undocumented. Some of the recordings throughout his career include: Moe Koffman's "Tales Of Koffman" 1962, Phyllis Marshall's "That Girl" (Capitol) and he is on CDs with Rosemary Galloway's "Sisters of Swing".["The Miller Companion To Jazz in Canada" by Mark Miller]
Amadio worked on CBC Television for five seasons and became a well-known figure from coast-to-coast as Musical Director for the weekly ''Music Hop
''Music Hop'' is a Canadian music television series that aired on CBC Television from 1963 to 1967.
Premise
Pop and rock music was featured in this series for youth, essentially a Canadian version of '' American Bandstand''.
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'' show from 1963 until 1967. Amadio later conducted for numerous other variety specials on the CBC network. He played in the house band on CBC-TV’s '' Wayne & Shuster Show'' for 20 years, and with the Bert Niosi Orchestra on ''Cross Canada Hit Parade'' between 1953 and 1957. For a span of fifty years he worked for the CBC as an orchestra leader and musical director for many TV series, including ''The Tommy Ambrose Show'' 1956/57, ''Take 30'' in 1961, ''Swing Gently'', and ''Down Home Country'', the syndicated series "Nashville Swing" 1977-82 and TV specials with Jane Eastwood, Kenny Rogers
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, Robert Goulet
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, Mel Tormé
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, Al Hirt
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, Buddy Rich
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, Maynard Ferguson
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, Henry Mancini
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, Nelson Riddle
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to name only a few. Amadio also performed a two-hour special live-broadcast in the CBC Special ''100 Years of Canada'' with the 40-piece Norman Amadio Orchestra.
In the 1980s, Norm worked with Chet Baker when he came to Toronto along with other jazz greats like Ruby Bruff and Harry "Sweets" Edison.
Later with his orchestra, he backed Broadway and Las Vegas Stars at the Royal York Hotel's Imperial Room between 1987 and 1990 including Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American musician and actor. He performed jazz, Pop music, pop, rock and roll, Folk music, folk, Swing music, swing, and country music.
He started his car ...
, The Drifters
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, The Coasters
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, The Inkspots
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, Phyllis Diller
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and Eddie Fisher
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. At the O'Keefe Centre Amadio worked with names including Judy Garland
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, Paul Anka
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, Engelbert Humperdinck, Red Skelton
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, The Supremes
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and Bob Hope
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. He also worked with the likes of Milton Berle
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, Jackie Mason
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, Phil Foster, the Smothers Brothers
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and Steve Lawrence
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at other venues.
The Canadian musicians and vocalists Amadio worked with are too numerous to list, but included Rob McConnell
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, Ed Bickert
Edward Isaac Bickert, (November 29, 1932 – February 28, 2019) was a Canadian guitarist who played mainstream jazz and swing music. Bickert worked professionally from the mid-1950s to 2000, mainly in the Toronto area. His international reputati ...
, Hagood Hardy
Hugh Hagood Hardy, (February 26, 1937 – January 1, 1997) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist. He played mainly jazz and easy listening music. He is best known for the 1975 single, "The Homecoming" from his album of the same na ...
, Jerry Fuller
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, Don Vickery, Bob Schilling, Bob Price, Alex Lazaroff, Archie Allyene, Jack Lander, Moe Koffman
Morris "Moe" Koffman, Order of Canada, OC (28 December 1928 – 28 March 2001) was a Canadians, Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger. During a career spanning from the 1950s to the 2000s, Koffman was one of Cana ...
, Rosemary Galloway, Neil Swainson
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, George Koller
George Koller (born December 9, 1958) is a Canadian bassist who has played free jazz, folk music, world music, and world fusion.
Career
Koller has worked with Bruce Cockburn, William Beauvais, Holly Cole, Peter Gabriel, Graeme Kirkland, Lore ...
, Peter Appleyard, Lorne Lofsky, Alex Dean, Phil Nimmons, P.J. Perry, Sam Noto, Reg Schwager, Steve Wallace, Bill Mulhall and Phil Dwyer
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. From Dec 2010 to Dec 2014, Amadio was the piano player and center focus of the Singer's Jazz Series organized and hosted by Toronto vocalist and artist Julie McGregor. The Singer's Jazz Series started out at the now defunct Trane Studio owned by jazz supporter Frank Francis. Singer's Jazz Series performed to sold-out shows alongside either bassist Duncan Hopkins
Duncan Hopkins (born 21 September 1967) is an English-born jazz composer and musician who plays double bass and electric bass.
Early life and education
Hopkins was born in Coventry, West Midlands. His father was a trombone player and his mothe ...
or Neil Swainson playing popular hot spots and filling houses like Trane Studio, Hugh's Room
Hugh's Room is a restaurant and live music venue in Toronto, Ontario. and Pauper's Pub featuring up and coming local jazz singers and jazz poets; the late, Reiner W. Schwarz and Chris Hercules. "Today’s young crop of jazz singers, in Toronto and internationally, stands up well compared to 'all those singers who came before.' says Amadio." Amadio, at age 86 retired playing his last gig as part of The 2014 TD Downtown Jazz Festival Club Series accompanying vocalist Julie McGregor with Darryl Orr on sax. Norm recorded 12 songs with Julie McGregor and bassist George Koller in 2010, including
Dance Me To The End Of Love
Easy To Love
an
I'm Glad There Is You
Norman Amadio's second last CD, ''Norman Amadio and Friends'' included vocalists Marc Jordan Marc or MARC may refer to:
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and Jackie Richardson
Jackie Richardson (born January 4, 1947) is a Canadian singer and actress. Richardson is known for her screen roles in '' Turning to Stone'', ''The Gospel According to the Blues'', ''The Doodlebops'', and '' Sins of the Father''. She is also kno ...
, saxophonist Phil Dwyer, Guido Basso
Guido Basso, (born 27 September 1937) is a Canadian jazz musician who was a member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass big band. He is a trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger, composer and conductor.
Life and career
Basso was born in Montreal, Quebec, ...
on flugelhorn and with Reg Schwager (acoustic guitar, electric guitar). penned by producer Andrew A. Melzer.
Amadio died in January 2020, aged 91.[
]
See also
* List of Jazz Arrangers
The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or develo ...
References
External links
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