[78-L] Alto sax style omissions

[yves francois]

Julian
Stovall would be in the same genre as Davis, Rudy Williams, Pete Brown (who I am listening to right now - alt take of Frankie Newton's "Who's Sorry Now" - celebrating Newton's 103 birthday - he is a personal hero of mine). A question for you Julian - would you put Booker Pittman in the same category as angular - most of these also drive as well. Also what about Earl Bostic and Horsecollar Williams?
Yves
PS Bennett did a bit better on tenor in 1946/7 - think he was a beginner in the late 30's - at least he improved (kind of a poor mans Edgar Saucier - another contemporary Chicago blues player IMHO)- and Jordan was (in terms of sax playing) a sort of lesser version of Pete Brown or Skeets Tolbert

--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> I believe I mentioned Jefferson. Bennett doesn't do a lot
> for me, 
> sounding like a poor man's Louis Jordan, who was fairly
> minor as an alto 
> player.
> 
> Again, I'm more interested in slotting them into particular
> styles. 
> Stovall I would describe as "craggy".
> 
>       Julian Vein