Duke Ellington--The Great Paris Concert (Atlantic)
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Posted 16 April 2012 - 04:58 PM
why weird?
Never mind City Of Glass - this is the weirdest record Stan Kenton ever made!
(and it's not too bad, either)
it's been in my first choice vinyl stack over 50 years. i've 2 copies and love it. that mellophonium band was soooo big!!!!!
night at the golden nugget is soo awesome.
vinyl, of course!!!!
Edited by alocispepraluger102, 16 April 2012 - 08:05 PM.
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Posted 16 April 2012 - 05:06 PM
Why weird?
The saxes use vibrato from time to time! Not often, but to hear what sounds like an attempt to sound like Marshall Royal on a Kenton record is, like, WHOA!!!
And the tempos are all subdued, as are the brass (but those trombones are still tumescent, which I like).
And the groove is actually intentionally swinging. Not Kenton-swinging, but SWINGING swinging.
Gene Roland's soprano solos bring to mind the basic concept of Lucky Thompson on that instrument.
The charts could (mostly) pass for Basie, the band for Woody (mostly). There's a few "tells" here and there, like one tune where the brass hits a hard punch and you're expecting a nice long falloff, but instead it just...STOPS, like. NO! DON"T DO IT! Pretty funny, really.
I actually enjoy the album very much (and I too dig the mellophoniums, that was a great sounding band). It's just not particularly..."Kentonian" in a lot of fundamental ways.
The saxes use vibrato from time to time! Not often, but to hear what sounds like an attempt to sound like Marshall Royal on a Kenton record is, like, WHOA!!!
And the tempos are all subdued, as are the brass (but those trombones are still tumescent, which I like).
And the groove is actually intentionally swinging. Not Kenton-swinging, but SWINGING swinging.
Gene Roland's soprano solos bring to mind the basic concept of Lucky Thompson on that instrument.
The charts could (mostly) pass for Basie, the band for Woody (mostly). There's a few "tells" here and there, like one tune where the brass hits a hard punch and you're expecting a nice long falloff, but instead it just...STOPS, like. NO! DON"T DO IT! Pretty funny, really.
I actually enjoy the album very much (and I too dig the mellophoniums, that was a great sounding band). It's just not particularly..."Kentonian" in a lot of fundamental ways.
Edited by JSngry, 16 April 2012 - 05:08 PM.
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Posted 16 April 2012 - 06:42 PM
Nice one!
Dmitry Baevsky - Down With It - Sharp 9
Yes, it is good, and his new one is even better, IMO.
http://www.sharpnine.com/
Why weird?
The saxes use vibrato from time to time! Not often, but to hear what sounds like an attempt to sound like Marshall Royal on a Kenton record is, like, WHOA!!!
And the tempos are all subdued, as are the brass (but those trombones are still tumescent, which I like).
And the groove is actually intentionally swinging. Not Kenton-swinging, but SWINGING swinging.
Gene Roland's soprano solos bring to mind the basic concept of Lucky Thompson on that instrument.
The charts could (mostly) pass for Basie, the band for Woody (mostly). There's a few "tells" here and there, like one tune where the brass hits a hard punch and you're expecting a nice long falloff, but instead it just...STOPS, like. NO! DON"T DO IT! Pretty funny, really.
I actually enjoy the album very much (and I too dig the mellophoniums, that was a great sounding band). It's just not particularly..."Kentonian" in a lot of fundamental ways.
Re: Adventures in Blues - It's a great record, one of my very favorite Kenton recordings. Not sure I would call the brass "subdued", though.
Right now:
Discs 5 & 6
Edited by John Tapscott, 16 April 2012 - 06:44 PM.
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