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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2016-11-22 23:03
Buster Bailey was part of a unique triumvirate: along with Benny Goodman and Jimmie Noone, he was a student of Franz Schoepp in Chicago during the 1920s. The technical and musical abilities of Goodman and Noone are well documented, but it can be harder to find recordings of Bailey, at least in terms of extended soloing. Fortunately someone has posted this 1938 recording of Buster, playing a novelty virtuoso number: "Man With a Horn Goes Berserk"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLQoiUsYSA
Enjoy!
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: smokindok
Date: 2016-11-23 10:35
Art Ford's Jazz Party looks like it was a fantastic TV show! Unfortunately only ran one season. (And I was only two weeks old when the last episode aired.)
Looking forward to hearing you, Eric. Will definitely catch one of your gigs!
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Author: DougR
Date: 2016-11-23 19:23
I grew up listening (in part) to a set of recordings of the Benny Goodman Orchestra's air checks from the mid 30s. Know them inside out.
Happened across a recording of Fletcher Henderson's band recently, dating from around the same time, and the arrangement sounded exactly like much of the Goodman big-band oeuvre, because of course Goodman had bought the Henderson book when Henderson quit the band business.
But the clarinet soloist on the recording!! Who IS this guy? Burning technique, like Benny, beautiful sound like Benny recorded VERY sympathetically, a wonderful swing vocabulary but none of the Goodman phrasing--sounded very cutting-edge for the time. Left me shaking my head. Wow.
THAT was Buster Bailey.
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2016-11-23 21:09
Those Kirby Sextet sides are great John! I agree with all you wrote: sextet groups like that were the refuge of 'real' jazz at the time--plenty of room for stretching, but great arrangements as well. I'd never heard that group before today. Thanks for posting.
Eric
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The Jazz Clarinet
http://thejazzclarinet.blogspot.com/
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Author: John Morton
Date: 2016-11-24 03:00
I was in D.C. a few years back, and went looking for sheet music in the Library of Congress collections. I was excited to learn that the Kirby band book (or what was left of it) had been merged with the Benny Carter material and placed in the archive. I requested all the likely charts, but there were few arrangements and a lot of missing parts. But I was thrilled to see what looked like an original lead sheet in the beautiful hand of Charlie Shavers. I copied the parts for the Shaver tune Desert Night, but that's a later tune with no clarinet.
For those interested in the Kirby band, look up Don Byron's Bug Music album, for which he wrote some zippy arrangements of Kirby tunes.
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Author: ned
Date: 2016-11-25 03:58
''...¿Anybody have a transcription of Man With a Horn Goes Berserk?...''
No, but I think's all hemidemisemiquavers, with the occasional semihemidemisemiquaver added for...good measure (pun intended).
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Author: John Morton
Date: 2016-11-25 21:41
ned wrote:
> ''...¿Anybody have a transcription of Man With a Horn Goes
> Berserk?...''
>
> No, but I think's all hemidemisemiquavers, with the occasional
> semihemidemisemiquaver added for...good measure (pun intended).
>
This might be it:
(I deleted a link to an image from the late John Arthur Stump in favor of this, which credits the artist.)
https://prestonparish.wordpress.com/tag/john-arthur-stump/
Post Edited (2016-11-25 21:58)
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2016-11-27 09:59
>> Anybody have a transcription of Man With a Horn Goes Berserk? <<
Don't be lazy, spend a few minutes to transcribe it.
Post Edited (2016-11-27 10:00)
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