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Author: CircaRevival
Date: 2006-07-15 21:16
Does anyone have any recommendations of Jazz CDs with multi-reed players? I have 4 or 5 Eric Dolphy albums and listening to him is really inspirational.
Thanks
Louis
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Author: Bret Pimentel
Date: 2006-07-16 02:57
Just a few off the top of my head:
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Yusef Lateef
Frank Wess
Paul McCandless
Pedro Eustache
Eddie Daniels - known for clarinet, but killer tenor too!
Bob Mintzer - saxophone, bass clarinet
Nelson Rangell - saxophone, great flute and piccolo
Enjoy.
Bret
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Author: rcnelson
Date: 2006-07-17 12:41
Joe Farrell played a number with Maynard Ferguson in the early '60's called THE PHAROAH in which he soloed on flute, soprano and tenor. You might find in on a re-issue of Maynard's somewhere. That number inspired me to become a woodwind doubler (even if only at the community band/theater/church orchestra ranks) over 30 years ago.
I agree with Bret on his list, my favorites from that being Daniels, Mintzer and Rangell. McCandless may be the only jazz oboe player I have heard.
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Author: Bret Pimentel
Date: 2006-07-17 17:46
Specific albums?
You won't go wrong with anything by Lateef. Maybe try "Eastern Sounds?" Lateef plays flute, oboe, tenor, and some kind of ethnic flute (a bansuri, I think). Lateef is probably the first name that comes to most people's minds when they think of jazz oboe.
Ditto for Roland Kirk, but I especially like "The Inflated Tear," with him playing flute, English horn, clarinet, and various saxophones and saxophone cousins like the stritch and the manzello.
Frank Wess does some fine flute playing on Count Basie's "April in Paris" album.
Paul McCandless - check out recordings by the group Oregon. "Roots in the Sky" has some excellent oboe and English horn work, but, if I recall correctly, doesn't have any of his excellent soprano saxophone playing. He has a number of solo albums out, too, but I don't know them well enough to recommend one.
Pedro Eustache has some solo albums out, but check out this video first:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ijlLvQy3cQc&search=pedro%20eustache
Warning: includes extensive clips of Mr. Eustache playing with Yanni.
Eddie Daniels, Bob Mintzer, and Nelson Rangell all have solo albums, but you can get them all on the first "GRP All-Star Big Band" album. Eddie Daniels plays clarinet only, I think, but you get Mintzer playing tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, and Rangell does an amazing piccolo solo on Donna Lee.
Joe Farrell - also a great choice.
Bret
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Author: rcnelson
Date: 2006-07-17 18:53
And a 2nd vote for the GRP All-Start Big Band. I forgot about that one. I must be getting old. I just listened to that one last week.
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2006-07-18 07:04
Bob Cooper played sax and oboe.
http://www.answers.com/topic/robert-b-cooper
He and saxist/flautist Bud Shank did an alblum together in 1956, which featured them in an oboe-flute duet on Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do?".
I don't have that recording, but a number of years ago I picked up a Blue Note CD called Blue Berlin which features that cut. Don't know if it is still available.
Steve Epstein
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2006-07-18 07:13
And not a jazz player, but a very groovy folk musician, David Cantieni plays sax, concert and traditional flutes, whistles, and oboe and bombard.
http://www.wildasparagus.com/about.html
Sax is as much a "natural" double to oboe as it is to clarinet. After working their embouchures to death on flutes and double reeds, sax is like relaxation to them.
Steve Epstein
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Author: kfrank1
Date: 2006-07-26 05:18
Art Pepper Live at the Village Vanguard. Apart from alto, he played clarinet on "Anthropology" & "More For Les", and Tenor sax on "These foolish Things" and also a bit on "Anthropology". You can get these as a multi-CD set or individually.
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