[HOUSTON NONET]

Of course the great alto sax virtuoso from the UK may have something to do with this
Peter King burnin--- and what a GREAT TONE!
enjoy

 

[HOUSTON NONET]

What mpc do you think he is using here?

 

[Seasax]

freddie gregoyry or MC gregory, cant think which it was, but a metal mouthpiece

 

[Pgraves]

probably the same as this

 

[HOUSTON NONET]

probably the same as this

Thanks for the video
not a link for sure

 

[jamiejazz]

Peter King has quite a few recordings out. He's a monster player.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr...;&rh=n:520920,k:"peter king",n:231201
Also check out his playing on Charlie Watt's 'Tribute to Bird'-he gets lots of cadenzas etc on this one.

'East 34th st' is another good one along with the 90's 'Lush Life' album.

A good older album is 'New Beginnings' but it may be hard to get.

Jamie O'D

 

[HOUSTON NONET]

thanks will do

 

[blindside398]

Haha, this is so weird, I just made a post in "brand name players" because I found this video on youtube as well and was wondering what became of King. Amazing, great minds think alike, huh?

 

[HOUSTON NONET]

he is a fine bebop alto player with Great tone

 

[Andrew]

looks like a metal link to me ...

 

[BigHunk]

Now if you have not seen this one,,,simply awesome..

 

[milandro]

That version of Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life, with all due respect for the incredible technique of Peter King, defeats the obvious mood of one my favorite pieces of music ever, Lush Life (just think of the lirics...) the ballad, par excellence, however, on You tube there are so many other things from him. This version of Cry me a river is spectacular.

The whole session (look it up) is incredible!

 

[crazydaisydoo]

Milandro, I agree, it was worth waiting for Peter's solo on this one. I can almost forgive Lulu's singing and Jeff's solo.

Jeff, bless him, is no jazzer. He murders the outro, which is quite tough to play (kessel did it originally) and Lulu sure aint no Julie London IMHO. Dont get me wrong, Beck is a top blues and rock player, and Lulu can belt it out, but they are both wrong here. Peter King, awesome!

 

[milandro]

the whole session is very interesting, featuring also Tom Jones and Van Morrison.....

it is great to see how even famous people have fun doing what we do, just playing music , also after all those many years

 

[milandro]

there's more

 

[crazydaisydoo]

there's more

Milandro, he is playing "Nadia" here by Nitin Sawhney which is one of my favourite tunes, from his "beyond skin" album of 1999. Try and grab a copy, It is a great mix of soul, jazz, indian and world music.....

A live version:

Thanks for posting this.

 

[milandro]

Amazing. I am not very big on Indian music but I enjoyed it.

thanks

 

[milandro]

even more...