[Dixielandjazz] applause and Bud Freeman

[Joe Carbery]

Remember The Rampart Street Paraders, with a front line of tpt, tbn, clt,
ten & bass saxophone, playing clutter-free ensembles. Of course the quality
of the players was extremely high!

Joe Carbery.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com>
wrote:

> Perhaps the best example of avoiding clutter were Jack Teagarden's
> trombone and Ernie Caceres's baritone sax. Neither followed the
> conventional ensemble roles for their instruments.
> Steve Voce
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 27 Dec 2015, at 21:37, Ken Mathieson <ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ken Mathieson
> >
> >
> >
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