[Dixielandjazz] applause and Bud Freeman

[Marek Boym]

>
> Bob wrote inter alia:
> >snip
>
> IMHO: A tenor sax can muddy things up in the front line if he and the other
> musicians are not of top quality. In the case of tenor sax players such as
> Bud Freeman and Eddie Miller, they know what they are doing. They know
> their place musically in a Dixieland style. They never muddy the waters.
> < snip
>
> It wasn't just tenor players who were adept at not cluttering ensembles:
> Loads of wonderful Condon sessions involved 6-piece Dixie front lines which
> included both Bud on tenor AND Dick Cary on Eb horn and yet, by some magic
> and a great deal of discretion from all the horns, the overall sound isn't
> cluttered. Indeed Dick's contributions seem all the more remarkable when
> you consider the trombone and Eb Horn have similar sounds and occupy the
> same register, yet Dick and Cutty or Lou somehow managed to keep out of
> each other's way and their individual ensemble lines are easy to follow.
>

And not only that: Alex Welsh featured both the trombone and the tenor sax,
and his band's sound was never "muddied."  Nor was  Freddie Randalls when
he had Ms. Smith on saxophone.
Cheers,


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