Alto sax

[Mccoy]

Back with jazz music, I've been catching up on the alto saxophonists for awhile now.
Greg Osby is in a league of his own, pls hear to his rendition of the old Jitterburg Waltz, played by Fats Waller:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZlsFjX17Qo

 

[BigH]

Thanks McCoy - will look when I can get to an area where our internet policy doesn't block just about every funny pic and any video . . . sometimes I get lucky with the videos if they are imbedded in a news site . . . Am sure you have listened to Stan Getz . . . . his second to last recording was with Abby Lincoln - You Gotta Pay the Band and he did some beautiful sax work on that album . . .

 

[Mccoy]

Thanks for the tip BigH, I'm going to look in youtube for that album, I have the very last Stan Getz recording, a duo with the pianist Kenny Barron and that's one of the best sax-piano albums ever recorded, Soul Eyes is superbly performed and Stan Getz at a certain point Leaves the impro before the time, he was playing notwithstanding the cancer which after a while killed him

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM-NaTtXyNc

 

[fattdad]

Alto Madness! Mr. Richie Cole. Great stuff with Eddie Jefferson.

I'll think up a few more. . .

f-d

¡papá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!

 

[Mccoy]

Youtube carries a coupla Tunes from the album: "You gotta pay the band", with Abbey Lincoln, Stan Getz, Hank Jones. I didn't know this recording, really excellent music!

I also enjoyed Richie Cole, lotsa vids on him.

 

[BigH]

I'll have to look it up to be sure but her album after "You Gotta Pay The Band" had Kenny Baron on piano . . .

 

[Mccoy]

BigH, probably you are speaking about 'turtle dream', with barron and other top musicians as guests, that was an album who gained Abbey Lincoln a grammy award

 

[Mccoy]

Bunky Green is a formidable alto saxophonist, born in Chigaco and little known so far because he chose a teaching career, though lately came back on stage. His syle is pretty sophisticated, inside-outside, this is a superb rendition of a composition of him, 'little girl I'll miss you':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUOaiLPsVio

 

[Mccoy]

Another excellent piece from a Bunky Green album, the classic 'Green dophin Street'.
He starts with an impro based on an harmony heard form an Algerian native musician in Africa, then goes to a superb glissando and starts the tune, great voice, superlative impro, I'll confess to you that I started playing my father's alto after hearing this musician, although I had very reluctantly to quit because of a persistent abdominal pain caused by an old gym injury. Blowing an horn alas ain't that very easy thing which may seem from outside!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdNZY8BzxA

 

[Mccoy]

This is a Bunky Green concert from Jazzbaltica 2008, with great originals. at 47:00 Greg Osby and Stefano Di Battista join the quartet to make up a redoubtable alto trio, playing one blues and ending with Body & Soul, check Greg Osby, he's monstruos with his Paul Mauriat alto which nearly sounds like a tenor sax!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0IFdrj3IO8