[Dixielandjazz] Some more New Orleans Spanish

[Bert]

Hello Christopher,
Actually I allready mentioned Spanish Shawl, but no problem.
Now you bring up the subject, I have the feeling, after have been listening to all Coleman's Hawkins work with Fletcher in historical order and comparing the dates to what other bands were doing at the time, that Hawk at that time was very impressed by Adrian Rollini. (And rightly so)However to my ears, he never came close to the ease and elegance of Rollini.
You are right, his playing is aggresive, but he uses too much tongue, so some notes do not really speak and the attack of the lines is a bit sloppy and unclear.  If you compare with the command Rollini allready had a few years earlier, he is no match on bass sax, to my ears.

The only recording of Hawk on bass sax that I really like, is Hop Off. The one version of 3 where he is playing bass, although his tenor is missed in the sax section.
I couldn't find it on YouTube, but it is probably somewhere, it is the first recorded version with Hawk. (1927?) Probably a Henderson outfit, recorded under a different name. 
I can't look up the exact details, since I'm on tour for 5 weeks, and won't be home until December.
Kind regards,
Bert Brandsma



> Hi
> 
> I have been enjoying the run on NOLA Spanish tunes. One more: Elmer
> Schoebel, who played piano with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, composed
> SPANISH SHAWL. This tune was recorded by several New Orleans musicians and
> by many non-New Orleans musicians. One recording stands out for me by a band
> that was, at least, influenced  by New Orleans - Louis Armstrong left the
> band a few days before the recording. It is the version by THE DIXIE
> STOMPERS, a truncated Fletcher Henderson Orchestra recorded on 23 November
> 1925. The introduction has castanets and 2 wonderful breaks by Coleman
> Hawkins on bass saxophone, followed by 16 bar bass sax solo, later Hawkins
> has to free himself from the bass sax and pick up a clarinet for a 16 bar
> trio and then get back to bass sax for another 16 bar solo. He plays
> aggressive bass sax like nobody else - pity he stopped later. Buster Bailey,
> Joe Smith and Don Redman also have good things to say.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh7ySXx4nJU
> 
> Christopher Cook
> 
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