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Old 28-02-2015, 11:52
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
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Old 01-03-2015, 12:11
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I love Art Pepper. He could play the Los Angeles phonebook and it would sound gorgeous.

Stanley Turrentine, with strings: http://youtu.be/5ce-gI-nQ7Y and a great guitar solo from Eric Gale.
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Old 01-03-2015, 12:43
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I like Art Pepper, another victim of the jazz drug culture.
I've his album, "Tét á Tét" a collaboration with George Cables.

He made a lot of albums.
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