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

[ALEX ILES]

Speaking of Bill Holman...

I spoke with Andy Martin the other day and he mentioned that he just 
finished recording a small group/nonet cd with Bill Holman. The charts 
are from 20 or more years ago and have never been recorded. The other 
horns on the date I believe were Carl Saunders on trumpet, Pete 
Christlieb and Bob Efford on saxes with Andy on 'bone. Not sure about 
label or anything or release date, but this would DEFINITELY be one to 
keep an eye out for.

Alex Iles
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On Oct 2, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Chris Tune wrote:

> 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
>> Three
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