Klarinet Archive - Posting 000630.txt from 2005/06

From: "Danny Bittker" <dbittker@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Linear playing (was Lester Young's sax position)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:19:33 -0400

Hey, thanks all of you for describing linear improvisation so much better
than I could have, despite having brought it up in my little comment on
Lester's sax position. For some appropriate listening, check out Coleman
Hawkins' 1938 or 1939 solo on "Body and Soul" for a more "vertical
approach", and then Lester's solos with Count Basie (Shoe Shine Boy, Lady
be Good, Lester Leaps In) I think they're officially called the Kansas City
Seven (the ensemble, that is) from 1939 for the more "linear" or
"horizontal" approach. And for an amazing example of what combines all of
this with astounding freshness, Louis Armstrong, with a Hot Five or Hot
Seven group of his from 1927!!!! playing "Struttin' with some Barbecue"...I
doubt these guys called it linear or vertical or whatever, but they were
doing things that influenced jazz to the present day. Just beautiful...

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