tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post6923307704113949251..comments2024-02-20T07:06:18.516-05:00Comments on Brilliant Corners: The Codified Jazz SoloSteve Provizerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09757505876939504133noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-627084551306918392014-08-24T18:32:24.776-04:002014-08-24T18:32:24.776-04:00Thanks, Brew. Certain stuff seems so _inevitable_ ...Thanks, Brew. Certain stuff seems so _inevitable_ in retrospect that it's hard to imagine an alternative.Steve Provizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09757505876939504133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-32177781952709651432014-07-31T03:13:56.092-04:002014-07-31T03:13:56.092-04:00and of course there's the original set-piece s...and of course there's the original set-piece solo, so old it's right on the cusp of jazz, the clarinet obbligato for High Society (Porter Steele, 1903), supposedly adapted from a piccolo part from the original band orchestration by New Orleans clarinettist Alphonse Picou (but arguably also by Luis Tio Jr, and others), first recorded by Johnny Dodds with King Oliver 1923, and quoted as late as by Bird, live in the '50srob chalfenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09456519158892216145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-78099512005671361102014-07-30T12:55:45.036-04:002014-07-30T12:55:45.036-04:00Excellent info, Prof., as usual.Excellent info, Prof., as usual.Steve Provizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09757505876939504133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-44358033649472718102014-07-30T12:43:31.773-04:002014-07-30T12:43:31.773-04:00Red Nichols famously quoted Bix's solo on the ...Red Nichols famously quoted Bix's solo on the Wolverine's record of Riverboat Shuffle on some dance band record in 1925 - Rex Stewart plays his Singin' the Blues solo for Henderson in '31. Trumbauer would compose his solos and play them the same on each take of a tune, Bix would always play it differently. In 1927 Victor A&R man Eddie King thought Bix's stuff too far out for Goldkette records ('uncommercial'), so Bix & Bill Challis would transcribe them & score it for the brass section! <br /><br />King Oliver's solo on Dippermouth / Sugar Foot (1923-1926)became a set piece for him & was widely copied & orchestrated by others, starting with Louis with Henderson, 1925!<br /><br />I found an example of a 1922 Leon Rappollo clarinet solo on a New Orleans Rhythm Kings side copied almost note for note by someone a couple years later. rob chalfenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09456519158892216145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-66973228962456903252014-07-29T16:57:42.354-04:002014-07-29T16:57:42.354-04:00Nice example, Andrew. Sickler is also a fine playe...Nice example, Andrew. Sickler is also a fine player. What is particularly neat about that arrangement is that he has the band come in with some background riffs behind the piano solo that he wrote for the occasion and then they move seamlessly into JJ's solo.Steve Provizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09757505876939504133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1959286621592188397.post-56033471126489137162014-07-29T16:34:34.335-04:002014-07-29T16:34:34.335-04:00One of my favorite examples actually comes from co...One of my favorite examples actually comes from contemporary jazz: Don Sickler, arranging JJ Johnson's "Kelo" for TS Monk's sextet on the 1993 album <em>Changing Of The Guard</em>, actually transcribed and harmonized Johnson's solo from the 1953 record for the band! No YouTube clip but worth a ninety-nine cent download, in my opinion.Andrewhttp://yestercenturypop.comnoreply@blogger.com