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"Jazz With Strings."
Doghouse Riley
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I found mention of this on another board.
Strings were included by many bandleaders in the early days of big band jazz. But it's pretty unusual combination for recognised individual jazz musicians.
But there has been some unusual combinations. I'm pretty sure the idea wasn't the idea of the original original artists, but more their record company attempting to increase their appeal and record sales. Jazz was no longer the attraction it once was for younger people with the ever increasing penetration of different forms of pop music. Though they they all "owned them."
Here's a few examples I've chosen. The strings can't disguise the natural ability of those, "given the treatment."
Some of it works.
Charlie Parker. (I quite like this)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzvTNjsPMAQ
Wes Montgomery (I've got this album, but I'm not that fond of it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7aUCE4ehwA
Stan Getz (Too weird for me).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sieypdvdLks
Bill Evans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACtdv2wK4ho
Paul Desmond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhAZqN64bQE
Art Pepper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQPh4f9wrqk
Strings were included by many bandleaders in the early days of big band jazz. But it's pretty unusual combination for recognised individual jazz musicians.
But there has been some unusual combinations. I'm pretty sure the idea wasn't the idea of the original original artists, but more their record company attempting to increase their appeal and record sales. Jazz was no longer the attraction it once was for younger people with the ever increasing penetration of different forms of pop music. Though they they all "owned them."
Here's a few examples I've chosen. The strings can't disguise the natural ability of those, "given the treatment."
Some of it works.
Charlie Parker. (I quite like this)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzvTNjsPMAQ
Wes Montgomery (I've got this album, but I'm not that fond of it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7aUCE4ehwA
Stan Getz (Too weird for me).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sieypdvdLks
Bill Evans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACtdv2wK4ho
Paul Desmond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhAZqN64bQE
Art Pepper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQPh4f9wrqk
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Stanley Turrentine, with strings: http://youtu.be/5ce-gI-nQ7Y and a great guitar solo from Eric Gale.
I've his album, "Tét á Tét" a collaboration with George Cables.
He made a lot of albums.