[10mfan]

This not only doesn't get old.....it just keeps getting better!

These 2 kill it!!!!!!!

 

[rhysonsax]

How could I have forgotten that amazing recording - it's wonderful.

Thanks for reminding me.

Rhys

 

[10mfan]

My pleasure!
Everyday when I am doing my work, I always put on something new. I started with this one this morning. It’s just so incredible.

 

[Merlin]

I’ve loved this recording from the first hearing, about 35 years ago. The only tenor play that gets that Byas vibe these days is Lew Tabackin. Slam is amazing on here - anyone who thought he just did novelty records is in for a surprise.

 

[10mfan]

100% agreed!!!!!

 

[bluto]

Oh wow. Thanks for posting this 10mfan.

I was slack-jawed when I first heard this some years ago. Byas doing one of the greatest improvs I've ever heard. So integrated but inventive. Just amazing. And Slam Stewart is just in a league of his own. I love to watch him switch from pizz to arco and back without missing a beat. Showman? Yes. Novelty? He(( no!

 

[mrpeebee]

Know it since a very long time, but each time I hear it it's amazing again. Thanks for sharing Mark.

 

[10mfan]

Me too, it just gets better and better. These guys KILL IT!

 

[allenlowe]

also a nice version of Indiana by the two of them from the same session.

 

[mrpeebee]

also a nice version of Indiana by the two of them from the same session.

Yes, that one is fantastic too. For those who don't know it:

 

[rhysonsax]

It seems very unusual for that time that they played as a duo.

https://jazzhistoryonline.com/town-hall-1945/ says that Martin Williams "claimed that the two musicians were the first to show up for the concert, and spontaneously performed the duets to entertain the waiting audience. Using the matrix numbers as a guide, Morgenstern placed the duets at the very end of the concert. Feather's review contradicts both Williams and Morgenstern by stating that the Byas/Stewart duet was an "interlude" (we will assume that the British-born and educated Feather knew the proper use of that word). The Rosenkrantz memoir also makes it clear that Byas and Stewart had performed together before the concert, and Morgenstern states that Rosenkrantz recorded the duo in his apartment a few days before the concert."

Rhys