Gary,
Are you sure you can't sail to Grand Junction and take me sailing in Lake Powell?

And I can play the stuff with one finger, but I still like it!
I also like Bill Doggett, Gary.
Just because you can play 114 notes in a measure, doesn't mean you HAVE to!
DonM

Don,
Come, come now I can't play anything as fast as you. Remember Yakety Sax? Like I said many times before, you play guitar licks faster and cleaner on the keyboard than most guitar players. They get stuck on bending notes way too much to get the girls oohn and aahn.

Boo, you mentioned Hank Crawford a while back. I remember a smokin' track or three where he played with Jack McDuff, but I can't remember for the life of me what album that was. Any ideas? Maybe Russ knows, or Tony?

Did you mean Jimmy McGriff...Crawford had a best of album in 2001 with McGriff


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THK5FVuptp0

124,
I'm from back in the late 50's just when Ray Charles made it big with "I Got A Woman." This is where I learned about Hank Crawford. He did quite a bit of Ray's arrangements. I did not know of him gigging with McDuff. Man, do I remember that Tenor Sax solo on that tune by "David Fathead Newman."

Listen to Fathead's phrasing, articulation and choice of licks. Then again anything that "Hank Crawford" or "Fathead" did IMHO rates as top of the line sax soloing for that time period.

124, The tunes below are Fathead with Ray. Man dig Ray's chord voicing. Talk about "Rootless" chords. He sounds great playing two-note chords. Ha ha! The first is "Ain't Misbehaving."
Fathead's over-all sound to me, would be nice just listening to him blow one note all night and I would listen just to his sound.

124 dig this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxLb7iEnJIw

Now this following version is similar but faster than the one that our band copied in the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJfrbzsEf2E

Fran, where the heck have you been? Have you lost your girls and been out looking for replacements? Man you should get some ugly girls and then they would make you look better. Think about it!

Nope, Mimi doesn't play the solos - that's Tommy P!(Politzer)

Redd Foxx once said, "One out of four people is ugly, so if the three people you're with look ok.............".

chas

Maybe a bang on his head ....hey....might sort things out...

I've always liked "Black Orpheus" from the Bert Brandsma Swing Trio..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylINL4eSY3w

Sonny Rollins' "How Are Things in Glocca Morra" is a favorite- slow and smokey..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiZ7S5gghPo