[Trombone-l] Bill Holman - In a jazz Orbit

[Chris Tune]

Coincindence. . .definitely.  I just happened across this one at Tower a few 
weeks ago.  I always look for West Coast Jazz greats like the Lighthouse 
groups, Sheldon, Kamuca, and so forth.  When I glanced at this one, I 
immediately saw that these were Holman charts that I've known and loved for 
years and the band was great with all the guys you so dilligently listed on 
the eBay listing.

I'd highly recommend the CD even though there is no "extended" trombone 
soloing.  Most solos by anybody, whether Holman, Kamuca, Feldman, Rosolino, 
Fontana, or Sheldon and Candoli. . . .are all basically "one chorus and 
away" type solo flights.  The thing is that this is the best of this genre. 
I'd call it Hollywood Contrapuntal Jazz of the late Fifties.   Different 
than the more famous Mulligan and Brubeck stuff of roughly the same period. 
This is a regular big band, voiced so you have three bone unison lines 
playing against unison trumpets and then sax block chord tags (for example - 
Holman has many other, similar techniques. . .the idea is that the big band 
moves like a small band. . .and it DOES).  Bill Holman figured, I guess, 
that you could write for big band with elements composed very much the way 
Mulligan did for an Octet or Septet or Whatevertet.   The first thing you 
note about Bill's charts are the vast amount of unison, tempered with nice 
stabs of chord voicings, or the occasional voiced out sax soli.  Plenty of 
room for everybody who can do jazz (which is basically every, single soul in 
the band). to be heard doing it.

I really like the album--though I'd point out that this is not an ordinary 
big band sound. . .really something quite different.

I really don't like the copy protection.  It plays great on my portable CD 
player, my CD player in the Honda and I'm sure any other classic CD player. 
But it is a mess on the PC and on the laptop. I ripped files to mp3 and they 
were a mess. I'm now wondering if there is a directX or VST thingy that will 
add in the Solomon Reed error correction that eliminates the noise.

Now I've brought everything via analog over to Cubase and exported to 320kbs 
/44.1khz / 16bit mp3 files.   A long, but effective process.


Chris Tune

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Irwin" <theimpalakid at gmail.com>
To: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Bill Holman - In a jazz Orbit


> What a co-inky-dink this was mentioned... I happen to have a CD of this 
> out
> on eBay...
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200031819082
>
> Pardon the shameless self-promotion....
>
> Mike Irwin
> theimpalakid at gmail.com
> Lesser Southern Nicholasville-Jessamine County (KY) Brass Quartet Minus
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