Sigurd Rascher plays "Rhumba" by Maurice Whitney

[JSngry]

The main theme, that is... no idea when this was composed, but,,who cares?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npH-DULg5lI&feature=related

Now taht I I don't ahve to worry about "having" to play "classical" saxophone, I can relax about it and say that Sigurd Rascher was a bad m.f.

[jeffcrom]

Thanks for posting this. There are things that bother me about Rascher's playing, but he's still one of my heroes. I've got a fairly nice copy of his Concert Hall Society album A Classical Recital on the Saxophone, from 1950 or so, and it's a pretty strong contender for the top of my "best classical saxophone records" list.

[JSngry]

There's things that bother me about that whole style of playing in general but I dug how this was a thoroughly "modern" "light classical" piece, and how nobody f-ed it up by getting too heavy in the interpretation. Very tasteful, and that main theme really really could be a Horace Silver tune!

[flat5]

I thought there was also humor in it and that surprised me. (the slap tongue)