[78-L] Deluxe, was TW Musicraft N7 set

[Jeff Sultanof]

Budd did write for Arnheim during that period when that leader was playing
more swing music; I have no specifics, unfortunately. Stan Kenton was in the
band during that time, and Budd told me that Kenton asked him to look at
some of his writing and critique it.

Budd wrote for a lot of bands, and like Benny Carter, could write sweet as
well as swing. He wrote a great deal, for instance, for the Tony Pastor band
during 1945-7, ballads as well as jump numbers. He did tell me that he wrote
almost all of the arrangements for Eckstine when both were with Earl Hines.

He was an early supporter of the bebop 'movement,' and was the one who
encouraged the musicians to play the melodies in unison instead of
harmonized, so he often wrote bop-flavored arrangements for various
established bands (Krupa, as an example).

He is truly an underrated figure in jazz. I was his assistant during my
college years, and he was a gem of a man.

Jeff Sultanof

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>wrote:

> Jeff,  I've read/been told that Budd wrote some charts for the Gus Arnheim
> band in 1937...do you have any details?  Some of those Brunswicks are real
> swingers,  e.g. "So Rare"  and "Have You Got Any Castles."
>
> Taylor
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Sultanof" <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Deluxe, was TW Musicraft N7 set
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> > Precisely why I treasure the Jubilee broadcasts of the Eckstine band.
> They
> > are beautiful and swing like crazy. Budd Johnson was delighted when I
> told
> > him I had them; he wrote the arrangement for "Air Mail Special."
> >
> > Jeff Sultanof
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Is there anything worse in the 40s (for record quality)  than the Billy
> >> Eckstine Orch sides on Deluxe?  I have stuff on every crap-ola label
> from
> >> the 20s on....but not even the worst Grey Gulls drive me as bat-shit as
> >> do
> >> those Deluxe sides.
> >>
> >> I've never been able to decide which is worse...the recording quality or
> >> the
> >> surfaces.   What kind of ground-up crud were those things pressed
> >> from!?!?!?
> >>
> >> Of course I love the music on the damn things,  but not even tweaked-up
> >> reissues sound any good.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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