[Dixielandjazz] Basie white men

[Marek Boym]

Basie I gather wanted to engage the English saxophonist Tony Coe .




> on tenor
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> Tony I remember from a tour with Al Grey
>
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> his less conservative tendencies lifted Al out of his more conservative
> ones.
> A Willie Smith enthusiast on alto (played clarinet and tenor with Al)
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> Tony also does go in for some avant-garde non (in terms of this list) OKOM
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> but he still congratulated the late and much missed Danny Moss
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> in his campaign to support musical tenor saxophone playing
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> as contrasted with imitations of John Coltrane
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> -- who as Danny put it were taking up the specialised means Coltrane
> devised
> for his own purposes
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> and misapplying them to fashionable non-musical ends.
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> Great ballad players, Danny and Tony both,
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> Nat Pierce was also a very decent pianist,
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> and if he very occasionally lacked spontaneity,
> that was in marked comparison with all his many good days.
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> Some of which were as substitute for Basie.
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> And even with Joe Temperley in an octet playing Basie music
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> with a very full sound like the postwar Basie big band
> and filling a huge hall (swinging with a pen)
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> Anybody who needs to see the colour of a guy's hands
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>  don't know what swinging means
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>
> Robert R. Calder
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