[saxkidsam]

I'm a bari player and I just got a recording of Lars Gullin. I really like his sound and I was wondering if anyone knew his setup or where I could find it.

 

[Tryptykon]

Seems like he used a Low B VI and a rubber berg.

I'm sure about the VI, but not 100% sure about the Berg.

Lars was tremendous, wasn't he ?


Bob Gordon was another one; but there's not much available w/ him soloing.

 

[saxkidsam]

Thanks! Lars sounded really awesome. Who did Bob Gordon play with?

 

[Tryptykon]

Bob Gordon played with people like Shelly Manne, Jack Montrose, Shorty Rogers.

He died in 1955 in a car accident(not uncommon for jazz musicians then ..)

 

[Kritavi]

any info on Bob Gordon's setup? I have the double cd "Quintet/Sextet". I think he has maybe the nicest bari tone I have ever heard, an incredible player.

 

[Tryptykon]

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/8586/gordon.html

...looks like it might be a Runyon from the shape of the beak and the writing
on the side, which is obviously hard to make, out - but the logo would've
been near that general spot, no ?

..and of course, he's playing the venerable Conn 12M.

 

[Kritavi]

thanks, sure looks like a Runyon to me. can't go wrong with those old conns. Bob Gordon was the man!

 

[LiAm84]

Ive got a pic of Gullin playing a bottom Bb mark VI and a hard rubber berg larsen. Great sound he had... what did pepper adams use? Also check out this guy: Frank Basile, he plays great. Great tone: http://www.frankbasilemusic.com/

 

[Tryptykon]

what did pepper adams use?

Metal Berg .

 

[LiAm84]

Have you seen the videos of him on youtube? Looks like he's using a dukoff on them... what do you think?

 

[Tryptykon]

Actually, I think I remember reading he went to a Dukoff late in his career; yes.

I was thinking of his earlier 1950's 60s recorded output, re: the metal Berg

 

[sycc]

Pepper used a balanced action bari w/ a berg and from 1980 til death used a low Bb VI and a dukoff.

 

[Merlin]

The last few years of Pepper's life, he played a Lawton...

 

[sycc]

He did use the dukoff in '80 when he got the VI according to his intervwiew w/ sax journal. Guess the dukoff didn't work out and he switched to a lawton.

 

[kevvieg]

In a Downbeat interview he described how his Berg got so pitted it was unusable. He said that he was (at the time) playing on a Dukoff D6, "but I'm not sure I'll stick with it."

If you listen to "Urban Dreams" you get a double-edged sword: it was one of Pepper's best albums in terms of his playing but he's playing the Dukoff and sounds quite thin. He was playing a Lawton by the time he recorded with Kenny Wheeler on "Conjuration" and beyond.