A Taste of Honey, 1963 Woody Herman, Carmen Leggio & Bill Chase
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- “A Taste of Honey” (Arr. Bill Chase) - 1963 Woody Herman Orch.
SAXES: Tom Anastas(b), Jackie Stevens, Carmen Leggio, Sal Nistico (L-R)
TPTs: Billy Hunt, Danny Nolan, Bill Chase, Gerry Lamy, Paul Fontaine
TBs: Kenny Wenzel, Phil Wilson, Henry Southall
P: Nat Pierce, B: Chuck Andrus, D: Jake Hanna Woody Herman Orch.
“JAZZ CASUAL” Pgm II (TV/1-15-64, prod. by Ralph Gleason)
My dad is Chuck Andrus the bass player!! It’s so cool to see him playing! Miss him everyday
“THE ARM” !!!! …A Woody Legend!!
Yes!!!! I love that you know that!
Awesome. I have this 33rpm album. I was one year old when they recorded this.
My step-father happens to be none other than the incomparable Billy Hunt who among other things won a Grammy in 1964 for his solo performance of Days of Wine and Roses with Woody Herman and the Swinging Heard. God, I loved that man. Unfortunately, he died before he reached his 86th birthday. He is the most humble person I have ever known. I had the great fortune to live with him during my high school years in Grove, OK on the Grand Lake of the Cherokees. I lived with him for 4 years and never knew he won a Grammy. He was that guy. How lucky am I? : )
Bill Chase, the best trumpet player of all time.
I danced in a show at the Riviera that featured Bill Chase, also part of a great group of musicians and close friend Tom Anastas who is playing saxophone here. Great choreographer from Rome, costumes by Paco Rabanne, original music from a composer in Paris, a really unique show that drew a lot of stars to the performances.
I saw Bill Chase in the Spring of 73 with his band Chase and they blew the roof off the club.
Carmen's solos were articulate and you could hear in them his thinking process.
I recall listening and reading about a band that performed this piece literally just after news of JFKs assignation. It sounded very much like this very recording.
Notice the impeccable dress of the band...
After this tune, please listen also to the unique interpretation of * Summertime * by this great band.
Especially Bill Chase doing the job of his short life on this.
Bill was the best R I P my Friend
Really tragic plane crash of the group Chase doing great on the charts.
Love Carmen Leggio's tenor solo. I saw him at the 1977 Concord Jazz Festival with Jake Hanna, Nat Pierce, Danny Stiles, Monty Budwig.
CARMEN LEGGIO's beautifully melodic tenor solo begins at 1:40. I could play it one million times, and never tire of it. SEE his 1998 41 minute Interview below. It is amazing.
Total class.
AMAZING trombone section!
Bill Chase Power Man!!
Hi Eric, yes, especially on the tune " Summertime " a Milestone in Music - History
Greetings from Switzerland
👏👏👌great version...
Awesome ❤
During Taste of Honey, the low notes seemed to met with disapproval from Woody Herman. I think they were a bit odd, but his style and melodic brought it together. Great music now and forever.
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."
1998 INTERVIEW:
...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.
Q: And in between the big band gigs you must have returned to this area playing with small groups?
CARMEN: Which is what I really like. I’ve played with all the big bands but I was never really, really happy. The only time I was really happy was with Woody Herman because I was playing lead tenor and I was able to play the melody and lead everything, and I really enjoyed that, playing the Four Brothers & Early Autumn and all that, it was just, that’s when I enjoyed it.. Otherwise the big bands - I’m a small group player, that’s it.
. . .Q: If you were to look back on the albums you’ve recorded which was probably your favorite big band?
CARMEN: Woody Herman, 1964. Yeah, I didn’t do too much recording, well Maynard naturally was great, everything was great. But well Maynard, a lot of it was exhibition, technical, technique. BUT WITH WOODY, WE COULD SWING. See I like to swing, and I enjoyed the Woody Herman band the best, and Benny Goodman. Well I didn’t record with Benny though, but I enjoyed Benny Goodman’s book, because it swung. So I really am basically a swing musician you know. That’s what I like. Woody Herman is my favorite though.
Q: Is it possible for you to describe, if someone knew nothing about swing music...
CARMEN: I know what you’re going to ask me.
Q: Could you tell them? What’s it mean to swing?
CARMEN: That’s always been a hard thing to answer. I’ll tell you. It has a lot to do with timing, with time. See because the most important ingredient that anybody can have as musicians first is time. And you can have all the technique in the world but if you don’t have that time, which is, then forget it, it won’t swing. So I don’t know, it’s a hard question to answer. SWING. IT’S ONE OF THE ROUGHEST QUESTIONS.
Q: It is. And I rarely get an answer so don’t feel bad.
CARMEN: I can swing like crazy, but I can’t explain it... Swing. You threw me now. That’s such a hard one to answer.
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10-31-98: CARMEN LEGGIO interviewed by Monk Rowe, Tarrytown NY
1. Click NEXT/pg.2 (top right) to HEAR Carmen’s 41min. interview.
2. CLlick on “2247.PDF” for a 24 pages transcript (PDF) contentdm6.hamilton.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/jazz/id/1031/rec/1
Carmen Leggio was a great player for sure. But genius? The over use of that word today has rendered it almost worthless.
@@stevel6895 If we're still listening to him 60 years later, then he was a genius. :-)
@@jrbeckman2194 Not the criteria for what qualifies as genius. But hey, if it works for you then go with it.
@@stevel6895 I may not know what a genius is, but I can spot a green-eyed monster a mile away! LOL
@@jrbeckman2194 You think I'm envious because, why? Did I not say I thought Leggio was a great player? My issue here is the overuse of the word "genius". Just because someone is good at something does not make them a genius. Charlie Parker was a genius, he created a new genre of music. Carmen Leggio was a good musician and I'll leave it at that.