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| California Session |
| Bud Freeman |
| első megjelenés éve: 2003 |
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| 6.125 Ft
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| 1. | Struttin' With Some Barbecue
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| 2. | 's Wonderful
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| 3. | Tea for Two
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| 4. | Crazy Rhythm
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| 5. | Sunday
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| 6. | If I Had You
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| 7. | Body and Soul
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| 8. | Just a Closer Walk With Thee
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Jazz
Bud Freeman (tnr)
Dick Cathcart (tpt)
Betty O'Hara (bn)
Bob Reitmeier (clt)
Ray Sherman (pno)
Howard Alden (gtr)
Phil Stephens (bs)
Nick Fatool (drms)
There's an interesting history to the Poor Angel Hot Jazz Society according to Floyd Levin: The PAHJS was probably one of Southern California's best-kept secrets. It was not a "society" in the true sense. There were no officers, no charter - it was the unilateral domain of a dedicated man determined to showcase the tremendous jazz talent in the Los Angeles area. For almost two decades, Bob Taber, self-proclaimed "head honcho," personally charted the course of the PAHJS with a series of jazz dinner concerts. The fee was modest, the food tolerable, and the music was always exemplary. It was strictly a no-frills operation. There was very little promotion, only a brief announcement mailed to Taber's "regulars". The letterhead was a line drawing by his granddaughter of a thread-bare, trumpet-blowing angel in flight. I was present at most Poor Angel events including the initial session on June 16, 1973. The $10.00 admission charge included a chicken dinner. Over the years, the PAHJS featured a total of 130 different musicians,many the best in the nation. (You would be sure to recognize the names of Matty Matlock, Eddie Miller, Peanuts Hucko, Barney Bigard, Nick Fatool, Red Callender, Johnny Guarnieri and many others.) Taber autonomously selected the leader and sidemen. Each program concluded with a few choruses of his theme, "And The Angels Sing". Taber said that except for Barney Bigard, the biggest name he had was Bud Freeman. Some years back, Taber heard that Bud was visiting in town. He contacted him and asked him to sit in on a couple of numbers or perhaps a set. Bud said "yes". Bud was standing at the back of the hall when the band started. By the time they were 16 bars into the tune, he ran up on the stand and joined the last half of the first number - and stayed throughout the evening. Taber said, "Although Dick Cathcart was the leader that night, believe me, when Bud Freeman is within a couple of mile of you, Bud Freeman is the leader! It was a wonderful session, and I really enjoyed having him." All the Poor Angel concerts were taped. This CD perserves the 38th session on January 9, 1982 at the Skytrails Restaurant in Van Nuys. Repeated listenings of this CD will reveal several rewarding passages that attest to the supreme artistry of the octet. The group, working together for the first and only time, created these mulit-layered sounds on the spot. We know you will enjoy listening to this recording many times over!
Bud Freeman
Active Decades: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s
Born: Apr 13, 1906 in Chicago, IL
Died: Mar 15, 1991 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Dixieland, Swing, Mainstream Jazz, Trad Jazz
When Bud Freeman first matured, his was the only strong alternative approach on the tenor to the harder-toned style of Coleman Hawkins and he was an inspiration for Lester Young. Freeman, one of the top tenors of the 1930s, was also one of the few saxophonists (along with the slightly later Eddie Miller) to be accepted in the Dixieland world and his oddly angular but consistently swinging solos were an asset to a countless number of hot sessions.
Freeman, excited (as were the other members of the Austin High School Gang in Chicago) by the music of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, took up the C-melody sax in 1923, switching to tenor two years later. It took him time to develop his playing, which was still pretty primitive in 1927 when he made his recording debut with the McKenzie-Condon Chicagoans. Freeman moved to New York later that year and worked with Red Nichols' Five Pennies, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Ben Pollack, Joe Venuti, Gene Kardos and others. He was starred on Eddie Condon's memorable 1933 recording "The Eel." After stints with Joe Haymes and Ray Noble, Freeman was a star with Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra and Clambake Seven (1936-38) before having a short unhappy stint with Benny Goodman (1938). He led his short-lived but legendary Summe Cum Laude Orchestra (1939-40) which was actually an octet, spent two years in the military and then from 1945 on alternated between being a bandleader and working with Eddie Condon's freewheeling Chicago jazz groups. Freeman travelled the world, made scores of fine recordings and stuck to the same basic style that he had developed by the mid-'30s (untouched by a brief period spent studying with Lennie Tristano). Bud Freeman was with the World's Greatest Jazz Band (1968-71), lived in London in the late '70s and ended up back where he started, in Chicago. He was active into his 80s and a strong sampling of his recordings are currently available on CD.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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