[Dixielandjazz] applause and Bud Freeman

[Steve Voce]

So was Abe's trombone playing!

Steve V

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> On 27 Dec 2015, at 23:26, Joe Carbery <joe.carbery at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
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>> > 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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