Confrey Philips

Vocals, piano and founder of the Confrey Phillips Trio, a London based swing jazz act that emerged in the late 1950's, releasing on Decca & Columbia labels in the UK and North America. Born 1928 in Kalkutta. "Confrey Phillips was an unknown performer, his talent buried in a rumba band, until the morning he met Ava Gardener (escorted by Clark Gable) - and was COMMANDED to turn soloist. Her order, since obeyed, has taken him with phenomenal success before the most exclusive West End supper-club audiences, the elite at Mayfair's Society Balls and even before royalty at Clarence House."