Word: sax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lover, Come Back to Me. To start quieter numbers, such as Pres. Conference, the bandleader preferred to count out the beat or snap his fingers, and the band followed through with a brooding performance that played off a glassy-toned trumpet against the lush grumblings of a baritone sax, while the rhythm section boomed and sizzled in the background, and here & there the brasses split the air with steely stabs...
...style. The Mulligan sound is a low sound, a tense sound. Unlike Dixieland, it reaches no climaxes, and explodes in no blasting solos. Instead, it edges back and forth, finds harmony for a few lines, then slips off into exciting dissonance. Many times, the two voices of the sax and horn have been compared with their counter-parts in a Bach two part invention...
...play with Mulligan were with him on the Coast. Gone is Chet Baker, a trumpeter who got too good to play second fiddle. Together, Baker and Mulligan worked perfectly--the easy, sliver-like sounds of Baker's horn a perfect complement to the fullness of the baritone sax. Not until last night have I heard Brookmeyer do as well with Mulligan as Baker...
...Artistry of Stan Getz (Clef LP). The famed West Coast jazzman and Co. warbling some strangely appealing dissonant counterpoint. Getz's felt-toned tenor sax blends humorously with a valve trombone...
...faithful will not be disappointed. The Glenn Miller Story is what the boys in the band business call a "sax lead" (a straight, sentimental pitch), but it is also a creamily competent film biography in which even the Technicolor is as lush and mild as a Glenn Miller arrangement...