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Re: Buster Bailey

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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