[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 205, Issue 19

Sun Jan 26 13:14:41 EST 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-fUP0p0ET4

Bass Saxophone Duet - Sons of Bix -Russ Whitman and Spencer Clark

Don Ingle, of whom this site was untimely deprived, is on trombone on this performance. ebay is asking a lot of money for a vinyl LP on the Fat Cat label with among others Dick Wellstood in the band.  
This is more musical than the sessions Edinburgh used to feature under the title TUBARAMA -- I gather rhythm sections were not so easily recruited, perhaps with visions of the floor disappearing with lots of brass and some heroic exponents of instruments -- is it possible that if Don Cherry had been with them there might have been problems disentangling his pocket trumpet from a tangle of contrabass euphonium mouthpieces? 

Happily him I call Bert the Bahnhof Bandsman can be consulted live and on record to demonstrate the musical possibilities of bass saxophone. Another maestro of the lower horn, not a jazzman, Gerard Hoffnung, did a hilarious skit with John Amis based (not bassed) on someone's experience of a German broadcast of serious intent which featured a lengthy lecture on an avant-garde composition which turned out to be extraordinarily short, indeed so short it still seemed short. 

I did once witness something similar at Ittingen, in Switzerland near the German border, in which the player of a contra-contra-bass clarinet was balanced on a bar stool positively alpine in its height, without which there wouldn't have been enough space between the player's teeth and his shoes, in fact the space lower than the soles of his  shoes where the keyed anaconda turned up to where the bell of the item was pointed toward the audience. I believe there is a Hoffnung cartoon of someone with a similar length of piping -- hilarious like most Hoffnung cartoons, and welcome to such as Marek, with a low tolerance for such sounds, in being silent.

I can't imagine friends will fault me for not remembering the name of the composer of the work... 

Robert R. Calder 

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  1. Spencer Clark (Joe Carbery)
  2. Spencer Clark (Bill Haesler)
  3. Re: Spencer Clark (Marek Boym)

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Spencer Clark, the bass saxophonist, recorded a microgroove album for
Audiophile ca. 1962. It was, I believe, unique in that he was the only
horn, with a rhythm section of piano, guitar, bass and drums. I know of no
other album in which bass saxophone is the sole horn..
Was this issued as a CD?
I can't find it on You Tube. Does anyone know of its availability in other
forms?
Regards,
Joe Carbery.
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:49:00 +1100
From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
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> Joe Carbery <joe.carbery at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spencer Clark, the bass saxophonist, recorded a microgroove album for Audiophile ca. 1962. It was, I believe, unique in that he was the only horn, with a rhythm section of piano, guitar, bass and drums. I know of no other album in which bass saxophone is the sole horn..
> Was this issued as a CD?
> I can't find it on You Tube. Does anyone know of its availability in other forms?

Dear Joe.
The short answer (to my knowledge) is "No."
Nor is the rare LP in my extensive collection.
The long Haesler reply is because the tunes were over-dubbed, multiple recordings utilising five sax parts (two alto, two tenor, one bass sax) all played by the wonderful Spencer Clark. Who is well represented in my collection.

The then jazz 'purist' in me did not like one-man-band recordings back then and could never accept over-dubbing and such-like infections.
It still doesn't.

Here are the discographal details.

"Sweet & Hot": 
Spencer Clark (bassax,as-1,ts-1) John Everett Morris (p) John Adams (g) Paul Burgess (b) Mike Bodolosky (d). 
Johnstown, Florida, March 26, 1978
    Makin' whoopee    
    Out of nowhere              
    There will never be another you              
    Watch what happens            
    Try a little tenderness (1)              
    Stompin' at the Savoy              
    Don't get around much anymore (1)              
    Moonlight in Vermont              
    It had to be you              
    The shadow of your smile              
    Call me            
    Deep purple            
    Blue moon (1)      

Kind regards - with my head ducked,
Bill.

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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Spencer Clark
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Hello,
I have the album, and despite the multiple recording it sounds good; like
Bill, I had some qualms, but. as a bass sax freak, ordered the album
anyway.  A search of the GHB group catalogue shows no results, from which I
infer that the LP has not yet been reissued on CD,
Cheers,
Marek

On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 at 04:11, Joe Carbery <joe.carbery at gmail.com> wrote:

> Spencer Clark, the bass saxophonist, recorded a microgroove album for
> Audiophile ca. 1962. It was, I believe, unique in that he was the only
> horn, with a rhythm section of piano, guitar, bass and drums. I know of no
> other album in which bass saxophone is the sole horn..
> Was this issued as a CD?
> I can't find it on You Tube. Does anyone know of its availability in other
> forms?
> Regards,
> Joe Carbery.
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