A couple of weeks ago, I posted about singer Bev Kelly and included a track of her singing Long Ago and Far Away live in San Francisco in 1960. After her first run through the song, Bev introduced her pianist prior to his solo: "Flip Nuñez." Most readers may be unfamiliar with the pianist-singer and composer (1931-1995), largely because he spent much of his career in San Francisco. For a chunk of the early 1960s, he was often at San Francisco's Bop City.
Nuñez didn't record much jazz—just a handful of albums, including one very hip, eclectic leadership album that really should be reissued called My Own Time and Space (1976), on the Catalyst label. It features Pat Britt (as), Flip Nunez (p, elp, org, synt, clavinet, vcl), Michael Howell (g), Tom Rutley (b,el-b), Vince Lateano (d,perc) and Willie Colon (cga,bgo). [Image of Flip Nuñez above from YouTube]
Here's D'Ju Like Me from the album...
Here's Nuñez on piano backing the very hip Jo Canion on Born to Be Blue...
Here's Nuñez behind Canion, who's singing Nothin' Ever Changes, featuring Noel Jewkes on tenor saxophone and Vince Lateano on drums...
And Bill Kirchner sent along See You Later, probably Nuñez's most covered song, with Nuñez on keyboards and vocal, from My Own Time and Space...
