[Dixielandjazz] Aristocracy

[Marek Boym]

Clark Terry could do anything.  The crowd pleasing effects aside, there is
some real trumeting on that number.  I have heard Clark Terry playing so
far out that I could not stand it, but I have a record (live in Vienna)
which even my bop hating friends love.
Could the bass player be Rodney  Richardson?
As to "most people know about the Basie Septet" - it surprised most of my
jazz friends, too young to have followed Count in those days.
Cheers

On 26 February 2015 at 05:06, Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:

> Hell of story, Steve. I knew that Basie formed the septet in the late 40s
> when big bands were in decline--had a 78rpm of the group, though I
> preferred the raw power of Dixieland groups like Muggsy's and Wild Bill,
> etc., over most swing combos. Was that really Terry on Marek's YouTube
> track? The trumpeter was messing around with crowd-pleasing effects, so I
> couldn't much tell his style. And who was the fine bassist?
>
> Charlie
>
> On Feb 25, 2015, at 4:59 PM, Steve Voce wrote:
>
> > Most people know of the Basie Septet with Clark Terry, Wardell Gray,
> Buddy deFranco etc, but perhaps not how it came about.
> > When the big band business became bad at the end of the Forties Count
> parked the existing big band at the Woodside Hotel (yes, the Jumpin' At)
> outside New York and went off to look for work for them. However, whilst
> the musicians were there, things went differently for Count and he formed
> the Septet. The first thing the big band, waiting at the Woodside, knew of
> this was when they heard the Septet on the radio. Count had abandoned them.
> They were left broke to sort themselves out.
> >  Harry Edison, who was in the big band trumpet section, thought of a
> friend in Los Angeles who was a call girl and who had told him that if he
> was ever stuck he could come and stay with her. He left the Woodside and
> hitch-hiked to LA.
> >  While he was staying with her she was in bed with a customer and in the
> conversation mentioned that she had a trumpet player staying with her.
> 'What's his name?' asked the client.
> >  'Harry Edison,' she said.
> >  The man leapt out of bed and ran to the 'phone.
> >  It was Nelson Riddle and he was phoning Frank Sinatra.
> >  'Harry Edison is in town,' he said.
> > 'Bring him in!' said Sinatra.
> >  So they were put in touch with Edison, who Sinatra wanted on his
> records. But they found out that Harry couldn't read music properly. So
> Sinatra paid for him to have lessons.
> >  And the rest, as they say, is history.
> >
> > Steve Voce
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> >> On 25 Feb 2015, at 21:54, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I wonder how many of you know theCount's small band.
> >>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=a4dbj91Vhw4#t=103
> >> Enjoy (not all its recordings are as good)
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