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  7. Saxophonists who switch to other saxophones

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    Posted · Edited by BillF

    I've just been listening to Lee Konitz's Inside Hi-Fi, which includes a session with him on tenor. Interesting! I love the two Bird sessions where he switches to tenor and Ornette on Tenor, of course, as well as Art Pepper's forays on tenor. The other day on "Bebop Spoken Here" from KBCS Bellevue, Seattle I heard Sonny Stitt on baritone for the first time. Far less technique, but still unmistakably Stitt! The session where Getz and Mulligan swap horns isn't well spoken of, so I haven't bought that one. It's an interesting experience to hear a saxophonist you know well on a different saxophone. Any thoughts on, or examples of, this phenomenon?

  8. Stan Kenton in the 1940s/50s on CD

    in Discography

    Posted · Edited by BillF

    I particularly like the Kenton Orchestras of 1954-55 with arrangements by Bill Holman and star-studded personnel including Sam Noto, Stu Williamson, Buddy Childers, Frank Rosolino, Carl Fontana, Lennie Niehaus, Charlie Mariano, Davey Schildkraut, Bill Perkins, Mel Lewis and Stan Levey. There's a lot of this material on two Contemporary albums: Kenton Showcase and Contemporary Concepts. If you already like Art Pepper, a good way into Kenton is via Those Kenton Days (Definitive).

  23. COUNT BASIE ZONE....

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    Let's not forget the dedication to Basie of many West Coasters. Shorty Rogers Courts the Count is a beautiful album with ex-Basieite Harry Edison on trumpet and a mixture of Basie and Rogers numbers.

  24. Ornette Coleman -Something Else

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    I remember the moment when I first heard Ornette - on a jazz record radio show in 1959. My first impressions were twofold: "Bird", I thought, and then, "madness". This is how Bird must have sounded inside the Camarillo institution, I mused.

    And, in truth, there is a hint of Ornette in the rough, unfinished cry of the "Lover Man" which Bird put on wax before they dragged him off to Camarillo. I quickly learnt to love Ornette and invested in seven albums recorded between 1958 and 1961 which I'm still listening to and marveling at now. So I've never had any problems with Ornette. Cecil Taylor, however, is something else. But that's another thread ... !

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