Clunky Posted August 9, 2004 Report Posted August 9, 2004 Recently picked up and have generally been enjoying a couple of Boyd Raeburn LPs ( Man with horns and Boyd meets Stravinsky) both on Savoy ( and irritatingly dates of recordings not given). Now some of the vocals are pretty dire but the sound of the band and the Handy arrangemnts sound pretty radical for 1945/6. These Savoy sides are a nice complement to "Standard Transcriptions" 2CD on Hep. Hep have another set of Jubilee broadcasts too which I've not heard. Unfortunately the Savoys have no sessions featuring Lucky Thompson but we get a host of excellent soloists including Gillespie, Chaloff and a host of talent but otherwise obscure ( to me at least) players. Raeburn doesn't get much of shout these days. Was his music a deadend or did Kenton or others take it further? There is also something 3rd stream and quite cool about this stuff. Quote
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