Larry Kart Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 (edited) Too bad we don't see Briggs' whole body, but still, his interactions with the music! Also, check under his name on YouTube and there's a clip of him as a kid dancing in a Stepin Fetchit short. It's brief, but wow -- it's like he's floating above the ground. Edited April 7, 2007 by Larry Kart Quote
AllenLowe Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 wow - and was that Maynard Ferguson? Quote
Larry Kart Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Posted April 7, 2007 wow - and was that Maynard Ferguson? Perhaps -- I'll look again -- but if so, just on that brief high-note passage. The soloist is Doc Severinsen. Quote
Larry Kart Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Posted April 7, 2007 Doesn't look like Maynard. Severinsen could have played that passage -- that is, he had the chops to do it -- but not of course if he's correctly identified as the trumpet soloist; and that jumble of boppish figures certainly sounds like Doc of the time. Might have been a guy named Tony DiNardi. The other candidates I see, looking at Barnet personnel of the time, are either the wrong physical type (Ray Wetzel, John Howell, Lamar Wright Jr.) or not capable of playing way up there (Rolf Ericson). Quote
AllenLowe Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 yes, forgot that Doc was in that band - I rmember hearing one of his early solos and it was as awkward in a way that was almost a parody of bop trumpet, in the same way as his LATER solos with Carson were - Quote
JSngry Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Bunny Briggs, Sandman Sims, & the truly amazing Chuck Green: The greatest, truest jazz movie ever made, even if it's not about jazz. Quote
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