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Despite record company publicity accounts that Gaillard was born in Santa Clara, Cuba of a Greek father and an Afro-Cuban mother, he was born in Pensacola, Florida to a german immigrant named Theopolous Rothschild and an African-American woman named Liza Gaillard. He grew up in Detroit and moved to New York City in the 1930s.
Gaillard first rose to prominence in the late 1930s as part of Slim & Slam, a jazz novelty act he formed with bassist Slam Stewart. Their hits included “Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)”, “Cement Mixer (Puti Puti)” and the hipster anthem, “The Groove Juice Special (Opera in Vout)”. Vout was Gaillard’s private term for the hip argot. The duo perform in the 1941 movie Hellzapoppin’.
A later duo teamed him with bassist Bam Brown. His 1945 session with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie is notable, both musically and for its relaxed convivial air. In the late forties and early fifties, he frequently opened at Birdland, for such greats as Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips, and Coleman Hawkins. Gaillard could play several instruments, and always managed to turn the performance from hip jazz to comedy: he would play the guitar with his left hand fretting from the top of the neck, or would play credible piano solos with his palms facing up.
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Dean Moriarty sent me here!
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Jack Kuroac sent me here, Slim Gaillard is just awesome.
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markmumble
I used to work in the wag club were he was a regular in the late 80's
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EiranCooper
Can I get a Bourbon-a-rooney!
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it may be said that this is fucking awesome
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SonicGojira
Nice Kerouac reference kekcfx
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LondonLouis
Indientally, he appears briefly - but memorably - in the 1986 cult British movie, Absolute Beginners which deals with the rise of teenagers in late 1950s London. He sings briefly in a movie with a Gil Evans soundtrack, and a cast which includes Bowie, Sade, Ray Davies and Mandy Rice-Davies of Profumo scandal fame (you have to be very Britisn and very old to know what I'm talking about there!)
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LondonLouis
Chicken Rhythm is the formal title for the Dirty Rooster reference below. It's very funny.
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on_purpose
i recommend you to listen to F**k Off (The Dirty Rooster). Hilariously good. The whole song is scating the magic words like he was a chicken. He can't retain laughing in the middle of the song. Awesome.
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LondonLouis
Always makes me laugh out loud. I seem to remember he turned up decades later in the film, Absolute Beginners. A great survivor.
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kekcfx
Dean stands in the back, saying, 'God! Yes!' -- and clasping his hands in prayer and sweating. 'Sal, Slim knows time, he knows time.'
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odjbo
yip roc...
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Ciacchi
it's a killa-dilla!
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pdeep
Solid!
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586 listeners, he's famous.
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futonsalad
too late... he was on Roots in the 80s.
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