connoisseur series500 Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 Now will someone else set up a favorite alto player? favorite tenor? favorite trumpet? I can only take so much criticism for leaving people out!... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 A person you could have included but is often overlooked is Bill Harris. Way underrated. His work with Flip is very good and the first cd High Note put out with him and Charlie Ventura is also good (the second, not as good). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 Dickie Wells, Sam Nanton, JC Higginbotham, Bill Harris, Lawrance Brown - in that order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed S Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 (edited) I dig JJ Johnson, Curtis Fuller, Steve Turre, Grachan Moncur. But I love Teagarden. He got my vote. Edited May 19, 2003 by Ed Swinnich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connoisseur series500 Posted May 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 So far mine is the lone vote for Bennie Green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 (edited) Guess the moose is running with the herd on this one; J.J.'s the man! But I must admit feeling some guilt over passing Teagarden... Edited May 19, 2003 by Jazzmoose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Larsen Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 Okay, I voted for JJ, and Teagarden obviously deserves votes as well, but so does Kai Winding! Where is the Kai contingency? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mnytime Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 This one is actually easy for me, J.J. No one else really comes close. IMHO of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 I voted THE EMINENT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 Well I voted for Jack. He's my favorite on this list, and my followups would read a lot like Chuck's. And Grachan would not be on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim R Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 I voted for J.J., but might have chosen Frank Rosolino if he was on the list... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 I voted for JJ. But I love Bennie Green and I can't ignore Curtis Fuller and Frank Rosolino. Playing now Ray Anderson's the man. Jeb Bishop and Robin Eubanks can often do it for me too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Late Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 I voted for Frank. In my book, Rosolino's the only trombonist who's the equal of Jay Jay's talent. I also enormously dig Roswell Rudd, but I've already gotten off the list. Here's a Rosolino site with a sobering account by Gene Lees of Rosolino's last days. Good, albeit painful, reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soul Stream Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 Curtis Fuller's the one for me. A soulful player with a great tone and superb musicianship. He's on some of my all-time favorite recordings. Check him out on Jimmy Smith playing "Blue Room." His statement of the melody is enough to make me want to know the words to the song.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connoisseur series500 Posted May 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 J.J. is running away with it. No surprise I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 I dig JJ Johnson, Curtis Fuller, Steve Turre, Grachan Moncur. But I love Teagarden. He got my vote. I'm with you Ed. Bigtime. I hated to leave out Fuller and Johnson, but had to vote for Tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tapscott Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 I voted for JJ, Tea second, Fuller third. Had he been there, I would have voted for Rosolino. But the all-time underrated trombone great has got to be Carl Fontana. Nobody, but NOBODY of the post JJ players had the melodic flow at tempo that Carl had (and perhaps still has, though I understand he's quite ill). We shouldn't overlook Bill Watrous, either. I heard him live in a club one night with a very hot rhythm section and he was phenomenal. Unfortunately, his recordings don't always do him justice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 From the looks of the poll and the comments I've heard, there may not be too many Steve Turre fans out there, but I for one like what I've heard. I couldn't vote for him over J.J., but then that's no knock on Steve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Late Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 John (Tapscott), if you check out that Rosolino link on the first page, you'll find a link to a page on Carl Fontana. Apparently, he's in the later stages of Alzheimer's right now. Very sad. What I've heard of Fontana (which admittedly isn't much), I've liked quite a bit. That trombone page also has links to quite a few other (unheralded) masters of the slide instrument. I don't suppose Bob Brookmeyer would fit into this category (as the valve trombone has no slide, unless it's the super-bone, which I guess has both valves and a slide), but I would have cast a vote for him too. Can't wait until the Mulligan CJB Mosaic comes out. There are going to be some tasty Brookmeyer solos in that set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 I voted Johnson, but probably would have voted Lawrence Brown if he was on the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tapscott Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 John (Tapscott), if you check out that Rosolino link on the first page, you'll find a link to a page on Carl Fontana. Apparently, he's in the later stages of Alzheimer's right now. Very sad. What I've heard of Fontana (which admittedly isn't much), I've liked quite a bit. Late :Thanks for that. Carl has been woefully underrecorded in his career. I pulled out a few discs last night just to see what he's on. Here's what I've found. Bobby Knight and the Great American Trombone Company - Cream of the Crop (Jazz Mark) - Rosolino is on this, too. The Great Fontana - a 1985 Quintet date on Uptown Bobby Shew with Carl Fontana - Heavyweights (Mama) Stan Kenton - Kenton in Hi-Fi Cuban Fire plus a couple of Kenton bootlegs from the '56 European tour which feature two Bill Holman arrangements written to feature Carl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn·m Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 Favorites are such a flighty thing but I’d guess my favorite is Knepper –followed by Vic Dicknson, then JJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Late Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 I have none of those recordings that Fontana's on! I do have him on Bill Perkins' On Stage, which is quite a nice record (that I'm guessing you have already?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dolphin Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 Nobody's mentioned Roswell Rudd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randissimo Posted May 25, 2003 Report Share Posted May 25, 2003 I bet you guyz don't know it's B3er's birthday today! go to organissimo, the band to post a birthday salute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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