[78-L] Alto sax style

[Taylor Bowie]

No one has yet mentioned (at least I  missed it if they did) two of my 
favorite lead alto players:  Hymie Schertzer (with Goodman,  etc.) and the 
remarkable Les Robinson,  who really added so much to the sound of the Shaw 
band.

I'm not sure which category they go in,  as I've never heard a solo from 
either of them....but they were sure good.

I don't know the Ayers record of Can't Get Out of This Mood.   The Kay Kyser 
version on Columbia is wonderful and features Jack Martin on lead...but on 
soprano,  not alto.  Jack was one of the greatest I've heard on soprano, 
and played it with Welk for several years in the late 50s.


Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Alto sax style


Johnny Hodges is at the top of my list regarding "melodic alto 
players".However,I also liked
altoist Harry Terrell of Mitchell Ayres and his Fashions in Music.Ayres was 
under contract
to RCA.I remember Terrell by way of a Bluebird 78 of "Can't Get Out of This 
Mood" which I
wore out.I play both alto and tenor sax which I learned on my own in high 
school.I also do-
uble trumpet and trombone but due to an up and coming open heart surgery,my 
second,I
had to put those horns away in my closet.As of late,I've revisited the 
violin.guitar and organ
which is an instrument I hadn't played in years.The violin I hadn't touched 
since 1972 when
I was a music major at the local community college here in the Coos 
Bay-North Bend,Ore-
gon area.Another altoist who had an impact on me was the late Arthur 
"Skeets" Herfurt
whose records I collected concentrating on his alto work.I had known him for 
some ten years.I first spoke to him in 1982 and continued to do so until his 
death in April of 1992.
I have an alto sax mouthpiece he once gave me some twenty five years ago.He 
was tru-
ly nice man from what I remember of him.Hodges had a big impact on him.

--- On Fri, 1/1/10, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:


From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Alto sax style
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 3:03 AM


Doug Pomeroy wrote:
> Under "Driving", add Edmund Hall!
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We're talking about alto sax, not clarinet!

Julian Vein


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