[Dixielandjazz] more on C-melody sax

[Don Ingle]

More on  C-Melody andSoprano Sax.

In the 1960's I worked with Rosy McHargue at Zucka's in Pasadena and 
later the old Green Hotel i the same burg. Rosy played C-melody sax . 
His "Blue is the Night" a lovely tune that he made his own. (It's on his 
last Buck label release).
Soprano sax -- one should also remember "Pompton Turnpike" with Charlie 
Barnett's soprano sax lead Good little big band rendition well played.
Bob Wilbur plays it more like a lead alto approach with a hint of some 
Basie/Ellington lead alto influence in there somewhere. That is when he 
is not showing his Bechet mentoring.
All in all, the little squack machine has had its moments in some hands. 
In my dad's, with Spike Jones, it was played deliberately brittle like 
fingernails on a blackboard. Hey, it's what the gig called for, eh? 
(Sorry -- in No. Michigan we live pretty close to Canada and those 
"Eh's" just slip in there.)
Don Ingle


ballen wrote:
> It's not OKOM, but James Brown used an alto (Maceo Parker) and t-bone for
> his horn section - no trumpet
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> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] C-melody sax
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>> Lots of dixieland recordings by guys like Red Nichols have the lead
>> harmonized on clarinet, trumpet and tenor. They often included a
>> more-or-less independent trombone part. Also, you can use a tenor as a
>> substitute for the second trumpet on a Lu Watters style chart. In
>> fact, tenor and bone make a great front line.
>>
>> -- Paul Edgerton
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