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  4. Gene Ammons

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    14 hours ago, JSngry said:

    Perhaps I am not remembering correctly, but it seems they said Skyline. 

    Would Holmes have been a predominately African-American school in those days (early 70s)?

    Reading about Skyline, it the early 70s it seemed that maybe they recruited various talents from other schools. If my friends had Hardee as a teacher (and they certainly appeared to have) perhaps they had him at Holmes before transferring to Skyline? They were both trumpeters/school band people.

     

  13. Gene Ammons

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    yep. I knew a couple of his students at NT, freshman year. They kinda went crazy when the Savoy reissue came out. Apparently he didn't go into a lot of specifics about his past, so they just assumed he was some old guy who probably played some gigs here and there. Imagine their surprise!

    They bought the record on the spot.

    Too bad the Black & Blue sides weren't visible....

  19. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    13 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

    I too am listening to this nice set further encouraged to do so by (much appreciated) Organissimo contributors and by a quote I came across in a Henry Threadgill interview:

    Eddie Lockjaw Davis, I have to say, is probably the most original saxophone player I ever heard in my life. I’ve listened to all the different saxophone players, but I’ve never heard anyone play the saxophone like that. It’s the most convoluted style of playing that I ever heard in my life. You can hear a lot of players emulate Charlie Parker, Coltrane, all kinds of players. I’ve never heard anyone that can emulate this man, or anyone who can approach the saxophone in this way. It’s a strange style of playing, and the harmonic language is very different. His way of formulating sound on the instrument is extremely different; I don’t know what that was about. If you listen to Eddie Lockjaw Davis (most people haven’t listened to him, I don’t think), you will see that the notes don’t come out of the saxophone the way they do when other people play the saxophone. It’s very convoluted. It’s the most original thing I ever heard in my life. The most original.

    Johnny Griffin claims (and Shelley Carroll confirms) that Jaws corked up some of his keys so they didn't open, which in turn facilitated his self-created fingering system.

    I've tried to get a handle on exactly how this worked from videos, but so far haven't seen anything. And yet the story persists.

    The only player I've heard who has some kind of a handle on some of it is James Carter.

    All I know is that Threadgill's statement rings absolutely true and insightful.

  20. Billy Eckstine

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    9 minutes ago, Big Beat Steve said:

    Don't know about the majority of others but I for one have known the Eckstine vocal version since my very early record buying/collecting days at age 15/16 as I had been given a 50s Guest Star compilation LP that had this Eckstine tune plus "Blowing The Blues Away" a.o. and one by Sarah Vaughn plus a few instrumentals by a bogus-named big band. ;)
    When I got my hands on the Swingtime ST 1015 LP in c. 1990 (and therefore a decent pressing of the tracks form the budget LP) these tunes stil sounded extremely familiar among the other "new" contents of the LP.

    You're an old guy who likes old music. As are many of us.

    I guarantee you that "today's jazz musicians" (going back 20 or maybe more years) are people who don't know about Billy Eckstine. They do know Coltrane, though, and they do know his version(s) of it. Here is a song they should be singing to him:

    Jack Pine - is your arrangement for vocal, or is it strictly instrumental.

     

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