Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-09-21 01:06
Fuzzy,
You may be on to something. The commentary says Fazola is playing the solo but it could be wrong. In fact, I didn't know that Faz had ever recorded with Sharkey, and I don't hear the usual round, fat Fazola sound. Perhaps it isn't Faz, or maybe he borrowed somebody else's clarinet. There's a program from the weekly Welk show on which Fountain is playing on a rubber mouthpiece (maybe his crystal broke?), and he really sounds different on that.
Anyway, whoever is playing the solo with Sharkey "knows the drill" and doesn't much deviate from it--which gives the solo a sort of generic brand quality. I would bet good money though that all the other versions we cited here are ascribed correctly (except maybe Bigard, maybe not, on the Armstrong version). Bechet and Hall for sure. Mattlock and Simeon for sure.
Post Edited (2017-09-21 03:46)
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