pryso, wonderful Mulligan clips. Thank you for those. All interesting and all great with one possible exception (for me); and I stress “possible”. The pairing of Monk and Mulligan is certainly a very interesting one and Mulligan rises to the challenge and plays in a way that is not quite what I’m used to hearing from him. Two very different concepts that only in comparison to the musical “simpatico” in the pairings of Mulligan/Baker or Mulligan/Getz does it become apparent. Still, great playing from both. A little like bit like the tofu sauté that I made last night 😊. I decided to throw in some pears that were about to go to waste. It worked!, but definitely unusual and, it could be argued, not quite right. Great clips!
Along similar lines, acman3. Never could understand the attraction of Ernie Watts in a straight-ahead setting. Fantatstic studio saxophone player and soloist in a pop-ish setting, but his straight ahead playing drives me up a wall with that nasal and whiny tone. But, I love Charlie Haden who is one of my favorite musicians and he likes Watts. So, who am I to say? There is obviously something there that I’m not hearing. I’ll keep an open mind about it.
The kind of thing that I think he does best, imo (on alto this time):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB0Hf7p4zvI
Along similar lines, acman3. Never could understand the attraction of Ernie Watts in a straight-ahead setting. Fantatstic studio saxophone player and soloist in a pop-ish setting, but his straight ahead playing drives me up a wall with that nasal and whiny tone. But, I love Charlie Haden who is one of my favorite musicians and he likes Watts. So, who am I to say? There is obviously something there that I’m not hearing. I’ll keep an open mind about it.
The kind of thing that I think he does best, imo (on alto this time):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB0Hf7p4zvI