[csax]

Thanks to "Jazzerd" for emailing me the link to this one. Dan & Dustin Higgins recorded a couple of videos a while back, but they were quite sedate by comparison to this one... Nice to see him returning to the C-Mel, it's obvious he's enjoying himself !

Dan played a borrowed Buescher C-Melody with (reportedly) an ebonite tenor Link mouthpiece on the original videos - maybe he's bought it by now ? :mrgreen:

Enjoy -

P.S. - doesn't seem to always display on my browser, so here's the direct link ( click here)

 

[Josinator]

Thanks for posting. I love everything that comes out of any instrument Dan happens to be holding.

 

[bakkiemetkoekie]

Coincidence. i just mentioned him in an other thread. He is great.

 

[Kenneth]

Thoroughly enjoyed that, have been a fan of Dan's for some time.

Thanks for sharing,
Kenneth

 

[csax]

Slightly worrying, if you notice how thin Dan has got, since the original C-Mel videos he and Dustin recorded. Other video's show him as merely a shadow of his former self. Let's hope it was just a conscious decision to slim down, so we can marvel at his playing for decades to come...

 

[piwikiwi]

Great music!

 

[sandster]

AYE! Great playing! New to me. Thank you very much.

 

[Harvey]

Haha this is Great!! just makes me happy

Thanks for posting this

Harv

 

[LateNiteSax]

Very fine playing. I would like to get a C-melody mouthpiece that sounds that good. Pardon this question, but are they reading music or is it just a tasty improv Jam?
Thanks

 

[csax]

Very fine playing. I would like to get a C-melody mouthpiece that sounds that good. Pardon this question, but are they reading music or is it just a tasty improv Jam?
Thanks

LateNiteSax - hello - for that to have been spontaneously improvised would have been nothing short of a miracle. Maybe Dan actually wrote it out originally, but this probably falls under the category of very slick "head arrangement" ?

To get a C-Melody mouthpiece 'that sounds that good' you'd have to go for a Bb Tenor one, but then again, Dan could make a popsicle sound good :bluewink:

 

[Mal 2]

Thanks to "Jazzerd" for emailing me the link to this one. Dan & Dustin Higgins recorded a couple of videos a while back, but they were quite sedate by comparison to this one... Nice to see him returning to the C-Mel, it's obvious he's enjoying himself !

Dan played a borrowed Buescher C-Melody with (reportedly) an ebonite tenor Link mouthpiece on the original videos - maybe he's bought it by now ? :mrgreen:

If I closed my eyes and did a blindfold test, I'd be inclined to think it was Joe Henderson at the top of his game -- he seemed to like minimalist settings like this. It sounds like a gentle, restrained tenor rather than a duck being strangled, or an overgrown alto, or any of the other wondrous things people have called the C-mel.

 

[sasin]

Incredible playing by Dan.
Slightly off topic, does anybody know where to obtain his album city side? I have Voicing a Standard and would like to find that other recording as well.
Edit: Wording

 

[Just Joe]

Thanks for posting. I love everything that comes out of any instrument Dan happens to be holding.

+1

I hope he puts up something on alto one day; his sound knocks me out.

 

[Nefertiti]

Wow, that's the best C melody playing I have heard. Usually it doesn't sound as good as a tenor or alto but Dan sounded great here.

 

[Jazztenor87]

Wow! Inspiring...

 

[FremontSax]

this isn't "flight of the bumble bee"?

Nope its "Hurry Home Fire Fly"