Woody Herman - Program II (June 1, 1963) - Jazz Casual
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Woody Herman - Program II (June 1, 1963)
Woody Herman (clarinet); Bill Chase, Paul Fontaine, Dave Gale, Gerry Lamy, Billy Hunt (trumpets); Phil Wilson, Henry Southall, Bob Rudolph (trombones); Sal Nistico, Jackie Stevens, Bobby Jones (tenor saxophones); Frank Hittner (baritone saxophone); Nat Pierce (piano); Chuck Andrus (bass); Jake Hanna (drums).
1. Taste of Honey
2. My Wish
3. Deep Purple
4. Early Autumn
5. Satin Doll
6. Mood Indigo
7. Blue Flame
Hats off to Chuck Andrus (bass) and Jake Hanna (drums) for helping this herd kick ass!!
Beautiful music.
That's the incredible tenor man Camen Leggio taking that beautiful, melodic solo on Taste of Honey (arr. Bill Chase) at the 1:30 mark.
Natural-Genius Saxist CARMEN LEGGIO (1927-2009) discussing how he IMPROVISES in a 1998 41min. interview with Monk Rowe. NOTE: incredibly, “Leggio” means "music stand" in Italian - he taught himself how to play at the age of 9. “I quit high school, because I knew I was meant to be a musician. But my father was so angry that he didn't speak to me for years. On his deathbed, he admitted I was right to leave school."
INTERVIEW 1998:
...Q: Well talking about scales and that kind of music theory, when you go to improvise on a tune like Body & Soul, are you thinking, is it possible for you to describe what you’re thinking as you hit each chord change? Is it mostly just your ear?
CARMEN: I DON’T KNOW CHORDS.
Q: Okay so your ear is telling you where to go?
CARMEN: I’ll tell you how I do it. I grew up with the melody. That’s why, when I played with the radio, if I heard melody I just started playing around their melodies. So I grew up, I started playing, actually it happened in the marching band when I was a kid. When I was playing in the marching band in North Tarrytown, and we had to play marches and I was playing in the marching band and what happened, a fellow, a trumpet player and myself, while the marches are going on, we’re playing in between the melody and improvising between the notes. So I started off improvising by knowing what the melody was, which is the most important thing, and improvising in between. And before you know it you take the melody and you put it on the side, but it’s still in your head, then you’re improvising all the way. And this is what I did. I’ve grown up with the melody. As long as I know what key I’m in, I can play in any key. I’ve never worried about keys because I go for the melody. The melody is what’s important to me. And so I’m known to be able to play in any key and not think about it. So even up to this day I don’t know chords. When I had to read them in the big bands, there would be chords written out, and I would take the first note, the first chord of each bar and make alternate melodies. The first note of one bar to the first note of the second bar, and so on. And make a melody. AND I WAS MORE MELODIC THAN GUYS THAT WERE READING THE CHORDS, BECAUSE I CAN’T READ CHORDS.
Q: So it’s served you pretty well actually.
CARMEN: Yeah. I MAKE MY OWN CHORDS. This is why I keep innovating, I keep variating, because I’m not coming from what’s written, I’m coming from where I’m at. So I grew up with the melodies. THE MELODY, IMPROVISING IN BETWEEN AND THAT’S IT.
MORE CARMEN 1998 Interview: contentdm6.hamilton.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/jazz/id/1031/rec/1
Carmen Leggio classic “I couldn't stand The Squeaking” => Early in the '98 interview describing how he got started: “1st I chose the violin because I saw my father playing the guitar & the mandolin, I chose that, or he asked me to do it. I DIDN’T LIKE THE SQUEAKING. I COULDN’T STAND IT...”
Also some great audio of Carmen w/Maynard Ferguson's band.
CORRECT PERSONNEL: (L-R) SAXES: Tom Anastas(b), Jackie Stevens, Carmen Leggio, Sal Nistico
TPTS: Billy Hunt, Danny Nolan, Bill Chase, Gerry Lamy, Paul Fontaine
BONES: Kenny Wenzel, Phil Wilson, Henry Southall
P: Nat Pierce, B: Chuck Andrus, D: Jake Hanna
...No idea why Jazz Casual messed up the personnel in the various pgm's!
Taste of Honey, My Wish, Deep Purple, Early Autumn, Satin Doll, Mood Indigo, Blue Flame
NET Presents JAZZ CASUAL, 1963 Pgm II (1-15-64, prod. By Ralph Gleason, 29:12)
Pavel, thanks again for posting this WH Jazz Casual Pgm #2. A couple of more things wrong I hope you will correct in the intro. First, the SAXES should be: Tom Anastas(b), Jackie Stevens, Carmen Leggio, Sal Nistico. Second, this Pgm #2 was aired on Jan. 15, 1964, NOT June 1, 1963. Note that Pgm's #2 & #3 are the exact same band on the exact same date. I don't know when they were taped, but they were both broadcast on TV in early 1964. I don't know how all these errors on the DVD labels were made, but they just get replicated over and over - too bad, but we can do our best to correct them.
They were video taped at KQED (NET's station in San Francisco) at their first studio in the Embarcadero district.