[Dixielandjazz] Aristocracy

[Steve Voce]

I think the bass player was Jimmy Lewis.

Steve Voce

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> On 26 Feb 2015, at 15:32, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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