jazz bass sax on YouTube

[Mark]

From 1975, the New York Jazz Repertory Orchestra, with the bassist doing the Adrian Rollini thing. Short solo at the 2 min. mark! Does anyone know who he was?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc7v8viTN1U

Another solo in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MstLBGBIFOc

Mark

[dolphyo]

the bass sax player was none other than Kenny Davern which is new to me on the big horn. the clarinetist looking snazzy next to Kenny with the glass mpc is another big timer Bob Wilbur a protoge of Sidney Bechet. one of the trumpets looks like a young Warren Vache. wow!

[cornific]

i just love the way that bass kicks!!! thanks

[Mark]

the bass sax player was none other than Kenny Davern which is new to me on the big horn. the clarinetist looking snazzy next to Kenny with the glass mpc is another big timer Bob Wilbur a protoge of Sidney Bechet. one of the trumpets looks like a young Warren Vache. wow!

Bob Wilbur charted the tune, and that is indeed a young Warren Vache. This info came from the notes one can read in the box to the top right of the video screen, where it shows when the file was added and by whom. Just click on "more" where the text ends. And in the "related" box just below the notes, you can find more clips with this group.

Being that drums are my first instrument there's another bonus in watching this, because the drummer (who was from that era) is playing the way they did back then, using the snare and bass drums. Far too many modern drummers think that this stuff is only played with woodblocks and a cymbal, because that's all you can hear on the original recordings. This was due to the drummers not being allowed to use the whole kit, for fear of the drum vibrations ruining the delicate recording equipment! So I've come across bands playing 20's jazz, with the drummer playing "ricky ticky" on a woodblock, thinking he's got the "period style" down...

Mark

[cornific]

Being that drums are my first instrument there's another bonus in watching this, because the drummer (who was from that era) is playing the way they did back then, using the snare and bass drums. Far too many modern drummers think that this stuff is only played with woodblocks and a cymbal, because that's all you can hear on the original recordings. This was due to the drummers not being allowed to use the whole kit, for fear of the drum vibrations ruining the delicate recording equipment! So I've come across bands playing 20's jazz, with the drummer playing "ricky ticky" on a woodblock, thinking he's got the "period style" down...

Mark

interesting

[paulwl]

I recently attended a NY tribute/benefit to Dick Sudhalter (the other cornetist and Bix' biographer). Dick is gravely ill with Multiple System Atrophy. Much of the music was Bix oriented, or by Hoagy Carmichael, whom Dick wrote his latest book on.

Dick looked great but can no longer speak well, play or walk. His writing however is unimpaired. I hope he finds a way to beat this poorly understood disease.

About MSA (http://rarediseases.about.com/od/rarediseases1/a/msa05.htm)