Sunday, March 01, 2009

Sunday Music Blogging

3 comments:

Jazzbumpa said...

Wow! What a great example of early jazz, with improvisation built around the melody, rather than the chord structure. I love the way it starts in minor and transitions into major. Sounds like a scaled-down group, with trumpet (or cornet, I can never tell) and clarinet plus rhythm section. I miss a trombone in the ensembled, but probably nobody else will.

A real gem. Thanks for finding it.

Phila said...

Glad you like it! You may want to check out their other recordings, which are excellent. Their first recording for Okeh does have a trombonist...you can listen to the first side here (though the other side's better, IMO).

And that is indeed a cornet, played by Albert Brunies.

Jazzbumpa said...

Now there are an early jazz apple and orange. I'll say that trombonicator does little to raise the level of musical discourse.

While listening, I saw this in the right side scroll menu.

Passed along without comment.