91.5 Jazz and More

Jazz pianist and singer Dick Farney (pronounced FAR-nay) had a big career in Brazil and recorded in the U.S. with bassist Slam Stewart and others, and yet he’s barely known today. Farney’s crooning voice was so smooth you’d think Bing Crosby had recorded pop records in Portuguese. Farney’s jazz career began in the early 1940s and by the late 1940s he was in New York as a regular singer on Milton Berle’s radio show on NBC…