Alto Saxophone/Guitar Duos

[Mark Stryker]

Gang --

I'm trying to help a friend discover whether or not there are any recordings out there of alto saxophone/guitar duets. And if not alto/guitar, then perhaps tenor/guitar. I couldn't come up with any full albums off the top, though I pointed him to the Paul Desmond/Jim Hall recordings to see if there are individual tracks done as duos. I have since learned of a French radio broadcast from 1980 of three tunes pairing Konitz and Jimmy Raney. 

So, anything come to mind? Thanks. 

 

[Dub Modal]

Maybe not the desired neighborhood (?) but this one comes to mind:

[colinmce]

Kaoru Abe & Masayuki Takayanagi - Gradually Projection + Mass Projection, though that's rather a far cry from Desmond & Hall ...

[JSngry]

 

[colinmce]

Tim Berne has recorded in duo with Bill Frisell (1988) and Gregg Belisle-Chi (2021)

[Milestones]

Steve Slagle (alto) and Dave Stryker (guitar) have played together countless times, although I can't think of any performances where is it just the two of them.

The record Free with Lee features Lee Konitz with two guitarists.

 

[relyles]

[sonnymax]

Ken Peplowski (ts, cl) and Howard Alden (g) have three good recordings on Concord Jazz.

 

[gmonahan]

Don't know about duets, but Paul Desmond's recordings with Jim Hall (that Mosaic collected together a long time ago) might sort of qualify, provided you don't mind the addition of bass and drums!

 

 

 

gregmo

[sonnymax]

Zoot Sims & Joe Pass - Blues For Two

Bucky Pizzarelli & Scott Hamilton - The Red Door

Edited 16 May by sonnymax

[Mark Stryker]

Thanks, all.

[Peter Friedman]

Gary Bartz & Peter Leitch

[relyles]

20 minutes ago, Peter Friedman said:

Gary Bartz & Peter Leitch

I completely forgot about that one!

[HutchFan]

[sgcim]

Don Burrows and George Golla made a duo recordins down under with DB playing TS and flute called "Duo"

A friend gave me a great duo of Warne Marsh and Larry Koonse playing a concert in Chicago that he got from the web somewhere and burned me a copy.

Zoot Sims made that album "Nirvana" with Bucky Pizzarelli which Buddy Rich purposely spoiled for this thread by sneaking in on drums.

Lenny Breau made an astounding album with Brad Terry playing clarinet called "The Living Room Tapes". You can tell your friend that Brad terry is playing a skinny black saxophone; I'm sure he won't mind...

On the album "Buck and Bud, Bucky Pizzarelli plays six duets with Bud Freeman. The rest have a rhythm section.

Phil Woods and Vic Juris made a duo album called "Songs One" just before they both died.

 

[clifford_thornton]

[Peter Friedman]

[jcam_44]

Comes out Friday. Tenor/Guitar duo

[Peter Friedman]

Ken Peplowski plays tenor sax and clarinet

[Rooster_Ties]

QUESTION:  Is this everything(?) that Lee Konitz and Billy Bauer recorded together, just the two of them as a duo??   (I don't feel like I have enough of a handle on all of Lee's early output to really know, but this might(?) be everything.)

"Rebecca" -- Recorded  April 17, 1950 (in NYC)

and "Indian Summer" and " Duet For Saxophone & Guitar", both recorded March 13, 1951 (in NYC)

Here's a pretty good Lee discography, and I'm not seeing anything else that's obvious in it (in the way of other duo recordings w/ Bauer).

https://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472115871-discography.pdf

 

 

 

Edited 17 May by Rooster_Ties

[sgcim]

On 5/17/2022 at 9:30 PM, clifford_thornton said:

Wow, I never heard of that Duo album Budimir made with Gary Foster. I'll be looking for that one. Thanks!

[clifford_thornton]

It's a nice one!

[Niko]

Subconsciously by Gary Foster, also on Revelation, has three more duo tracks with Budimir, but with Foster on flute and tenor, plus an as/g duet with Larry Koonse

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

3 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

That one caused me to think of this one which I believe was Phil's last official recording.