[Dixielandjazz] Sinatra / Basie - was When Giants Walked Among Us

[EDWIN COLTRIN]

He always put on a great show when he owned the Cal-Neva, Lake Tahoe.
Other stories about the club.
 
Eichy Da
 
 
Ye olde Mouldy Fygge
--- On Sat, 4/11/09, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:

From: Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Sinatra / Basie - was When Giants Walked Among Us
To: "Ed Coltrin" <boreda at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 2:24 PM

On Apr 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Bob Cassady wrote:

> Steve -
> 
> The Sinatra / Basie "Breathless Sax" accompaniment was done to
"I've Got A Crush on You" on the "Sinatra at the Sands"
endeavor.

Thanks Bob, I just listened to it on Rhapsody to refresh my memory.
Sinatra's comments after the first sexy sax fill are:

"You want to meet Monday we'll pick out the furniture?"

He chuckles and the audience laughs with him after the above and along with him
during the following after some more lyric and some more sexy sax fill:

"There you go again"

"Now wait a minute"

I suspect the sax player started to laugh too, as Sinatra says:

"Bite, bite, bite, bite"

IMO a wonderful performance and what musical humor is all about. For those who
can access Rhapsody, the link to the full song is:

http://www.rhapsody.com/frank-sinatra/sinatra-at-the-sands-with-count-basie-his-orchestra

A wonderful "live audience" recording. We usually don't hear this
kind of interplay in studio. Those of us who were fortunate enough to see
Sinatra  in live performance no doubt know how well he connected to both the
band, and the audience.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband





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