Sublime Pres from 1937

[Larry Kart]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miPMXdPO_BA

[danasgoodstuff]

i can't listen right now (darn), but isn't all Pres from 1937 sublime?  Or is this more sublime?

[Larry Kart]

It's kind of different than anything that came before -- the first "slow" Pres as the person who posted it elsewhere said. It's "Moten Swing," taken more "down" than usual by a fair amount.  Dan Morgenstern said, when it was posted elsewhere, that just before the announcer comes in Pres sounds like Bud Freeman.

[johnblitweiler]

Yes, a perfect solo, as perfect as "Easy Does It" even. What is the date in 1937, January or so? If I remember rightly, that's when the Basie-Chatterbox album was done. Quite a difference in YOung's style between that and in the Smith-Jones quintet (Nov. 9) - again, between the Smith-Jones and the Jan. 25 Billie Holiday sessions. It's also fun to listen to Frank Trumbauer solos and try to imagine what Young sounded like in the years  before he first recorded.

[Larry Kart]

February 1937, an aircheck from Pittsburgh.

[Larry Kart]

More from the same source and aircheck -- the only recording where Herschel Evans and Pres play back to back. Also, lovely exchanges up front between Buck Clayton and Basie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQf8p2hRecc&feature=share

[fasstrack]

Does anyone know about a small group date Pres made in the period of '37-'41 with a trumpet player? It may've been Buck Clayton. I asked Phil Schaap about it, but he insisted there was no such date. But I heard it on the radio (WKCR), I didn't dream it---and it was fantastic playing by Pres. Just didn't catch the name of the recording.

Any ideas? I'd be much-obliged as this is must-have music.

[kh1958]

As he had several small  group dates with a trumpet player during that period and he's fantastic on all of them, I'm not sure which you heard. See link  to small group discography.

http://www.welwyn11.freeserve.co.uk/LY_smallgps.htm

 

[mjzee]

Are these from the Savory collection?

[fasstrack]

  On 11/9/2015 at 7:37 PM, mjzee said:

Are these from the Savory collection?

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I don't think so. Maybe I should start a dedicated thread. Think I will.

  On 11/9/2015 at 7:38 PM, fasstrack said:

I don't think so. Maybe I should start a dedicated thread. Think I will.

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Just did---in Artists.

[JSngry]

  On 11/8/2015 at 10:54 PM, Larry Kart said:

 

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Goosebump stuff, for real. The way the time stands still and keeps moving at the same time, to say nothing of the perfect melodic development of "just" 16 bars...damn, Lester Young, there you have it.