[Dixielandjazz] Charlie Ventura

[Marek Boym]

We seem to be on the same side of the fence, Robert.
Cheers

On 24 June 2012 07:40, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> Once I had heard Charlie Ventura's BOP FOR THE PEOPLE the name of the ensemble seemed to me -- very much unlike the music -- a bad joke of high quality. It was never a description of the music, just a fashionable billing which might equally have applied to ......  No, I don't want to think about a raspy tenor saxophone and some Parkeresque phrases adapted for easy playing as cliches.
> A bit of fun too in that name.  I seem to remember reading that the man Ralph Sutton referred to as Dick Wellstride worked with Mr. Ventura in that group, but probably didn't record with it.
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> I'm not a fan of the sort of thing Jackie and Roy did, but Charlie Ventura was a substantial musician -- there was only one Coleman Hawkins, and there have been a lot of decently listenable tenor saxophonists with a biggish sound,  and an indeterminate number of tenor players have a high place between the unique and the numerous.  At one time Ventura was one of maybe a larger (but finite) number than some folks might have guessed could solo that well, there was a high plateau of them. Happily one can still listen to a decent number of recordings by some, by no means least Ventura.
> Ah, that recording of HIGH ON AN OPEN MIKE with Bill Harris, which Humphrey Lyttelton dutifully but enthusiastically played on the air at regular intervals!
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> Robert R. Calder
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