[Dixielandjazz] Kansas City

[Stan Brager]

Luis and Len;

The bassists were Ron Carter and Christian McBride. Ron was the one with a
goatee. The clarinetist was Don Byron.

Stan
Stan Brager
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Nielsen" <lennielsen at telus.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 9:40 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Kansas City


> Luis Flores wrote
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> <I just sow KANSAS CITY  the movie. I like it, the best was the last tune
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> Solitude´´ by two string bassist and one clarinet...who were they?
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> I have a video tape of "Robert Altman's Jazz '34" as described in part
> below. I enjoy this so much that I watch/listen to it often. I like the
> big group jam with the 2 trumpets and the cornet. One uses a plunger
> mute, another an empty beer pitcher and the 3rd a bowler hat. Great
> stuff. Also, the cutting contest between the 2 tenor saxes.
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> The 2 basses with the high reedy sounding clarinet is a really effective
> ending, right into the credits. I have had people who don't usually
> listen to this kind of music say to me "What is the name of that tune?"
> Even new comers to the music can recognize "Solitude" as one of the all
> time classics.
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> Len Nielsen
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> Robert Altman's Jazz '34: Remembrances of Kansas City Swing
> (1996)
> Minor but pleasurable, and the best thing to come out of Altman's
> feature "Kansas City." The title is misleading: this is not a
> documentary but, rather, a musical reminiscence. Altman plunks a group
> of today's players into a sepia re-creation of K.C.'s all-night café
> life and sets them jamming. Performers such as bassist Ron Carter,
> clarinettist Don Byron, and tenor-sax men James Carter, Craig Handy,
> David Murray, and Joshua Redman relax into their period garb and, as
> adoring women shimmy around them, take on a happy, sensual glow. And the
> music is smokin'.
> — Michael Sragow
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