musicians playing an ENTIRE session NOT on their primary instrument

[AllenLowe]

does Woody Herman singing an entire album count?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

does Woody Herman singing an entire album count?

If that's the one on which he sings "If I could be with you one hour tonight", a neighbour had it in the early sixties and I think from memory he actually does some clarinet playing, too. So if he did, it's the same as Milt Jackson's "Soul believer" and Les McCann's "Les McCann sings" - don't count.

MG

[AllenLowe]

don't remember - there's a cover pic of him and a woman - I've got a nice scratched copy somewhere-

[AllenLowe]

I also have a 45 of Billie Holiday playing the kazoo -

[JSngry]

don't remember - there's a cover pic of him and a woman - I've got a nice scratched copy somewhere-

[AllenLowe]

right album - but mine has a slightly different cover -

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Not the one I was thinking of - don't recognise that sleeve.

So, does he play clarinet on it?

MG

[AllenLowe]

don't remember, but I think not -

taps his foot a bit, however -

[kh1958]

don't remember - there's a cover pic of him and a woman - I've got a nice scratched copy somewhere-

There's also a Columbia album with a sleeping Woody Herman in a chair with a woman--Music For Tired Lovers, Love Songs Sung by Woody Herman with Erroll Garner. I haven't worked up the courage to listen to this one.

[Rooster_Ties]

If we're going to note individual tunes (as opposed to entire sessions), then this is going to be one HUGE thread.

That's why I started the thread to be about entire sessions (or "nearly entire" sessions), where somebody ain't playin' what they normally do.

[AllenLowe]

"There's also a Columbia album with a sleeping Woody Herman in a chair with a woman--Music For Tired Lovers, Love Songs Sung by Woody Herman with Erroll Garner. I haven't worked up the courage to listen to this one."

THAT'S the one. It's not bad, if I remember correctly -

[Ted O'Reilly]

Peter Friedman mentioned Scott Robinson on C-melody sax, bringing to mind an LP (was it ever on CD) where he played everything...all the brass, all the reeds, all the rhythm. He seems to like odd instruments: helicon tuba, slide trumpet, double-bell euphonium, rotary-valved posthorn, ophicleide...

Victor Feldman also did a '60s LP on which he played "Everything In Sight" as the cover picture showed, mostly various keyboards and every percussion instrument you can think of...

James Morrison, the Australian phenom, did a big band record "Snappy Doo" where he plays everything but gtr/bass/dms 'cause he had Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Jeff Hamilton to do that. He also wrote all the charts...

[Teasing the Korean]

Ornette on Tenor

Buddy Rich Sings

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

"There's also a Columbia album with a sleeping Woody Herman in a chair with a woman--Music For Tired Lovers, Love Songs Sung by Woody Herman with Erroll Garner. I haven't worked up the courage to listen to this one."

THAT'S the one. It's not bad, if I remember correctly -

Yes, that's the one I remember. The version I saw was on Philips, so that would be the Columbia album.

MG

[JSngry]

Here we go:

But that's not Woody. Looks more like John McCain!

[AllenLowe]

you're right - or maybe Wallace Shawn -

[dave9199]

Ornette Coleman playing trumpet on Jackie McLean's Old & New Gospel

[BruceH]

Buddy DeFranco , Blues Bag on Veejay - DeFranco's only bass-clarinet recording .

And man does he sound good! I love that album.

[Nate Dorward]

How about an entire band playing something other than their usual instrument? Don't think Sun Ra's Strange Strings has been mentioned yet...?

[Joe]

According to AMG, Jaki Byard plays tenor sax throughout on Herb Pomeroy's LIFE IS A MANY SPLENDORED GIG... can anyone here confirm?

[Chas]

According to AMG, Jaki Byard plays tenor sax throughout on Herb Pomeroy's LIFE IS A MANY SPLENDORED GIG... can anyone here confirm?

Yes , keyboard duties in that band were handled by Ray Santisi .

[Joe]

According to AMG, Jaki Byard plays tenor sax throughout on Herb Pomeroy's LIFE IS A MANY SPLENDORED GIG... can anyone here confirm?

Yes , keyboard duties in that band were handled by Ray Santisi .

Thanks. Very curious to hear this Pomeroy session...

[Chas]

Another entire session with a musician not playing their primary instrument is Rusty Dedrick's Salute To Bunny , which represents the sole recorded example of John LaPorta's baritone playing .

[Larry Kart]

According to AMG, Jaki Byard plays tenor sax throughout on Herb Pomeroy's LIFE IS A MANY SPLENDORED GIG... can anyone here confirm?

Yes , keyboard duties in that band were handled by Ray Santisi .

Thanks. Very curious to hear this Pomeroy session...

Don't have the album anymore (one of those that mysteriously evaporated at some point in my life) but recall liking it a good deal. On the other hand, I have no memory of any Byard tenor solos on it (all the tenor solos IIRC were played by ringer Zoot Sims), though there is a fine Byard chart on his piece "Aluminum Baby" (based on you know what). Also no longer have (for the same mysterious reason) its successor, "Band in Boston," on United Artists, which was also very good, though I do have the CD reissue of the Irene Kral-Pomeroy album "The Band and I."

[Larry Kart]

BTW, that Zoot Sims' alto solo I extolled on John Benson Brooks' "Folk Jazz USA" was on "Turtledove," not "Saro Jane." His "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" on that album is also very nice.