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Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:08 pm**

Anyone know the name the song from this video. It starts at 8:27. I thought is was sounded a little like Sidney Bechet but I can't find it.

Here's the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMCInf2qvfo

Posted: **Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:24 pm**

Ford wrote:Anyone know the name the song from this video. It starts at 8:27. I thought is was sounded a little like Sidney Bechet but I can't find it.

It might help if you posted a link to the video

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:51 am**

It's a version of Black & Tan Fantasy - but which one I'm not quite sure.

Out of the ones I have here, it's not: Solomon Douglas, Louis Armstrong (Platinum Collection) or from The Complete Verve Johnny Hodges Small Group Sessions 1956-61.

[EDIT]Got it. It's Wynton Marsalis (from Live in Swing City)

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:16 pm**

straycat wrote:It's a version of Black & Tan Fantasy

... which, it should perhaps be mentioned, was written by Duke Ellington with his great growl trumpet player Bubber Miley and recorded innumerable times by different Ellington constellations from 1927 on. Ellington was deeply influenced by Bechet (who was in the band for a short while in the mid-1920s but never recorded with it), so the first guess wasn't that far off the mark.

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:30 pm**

J-h:n wrote:...... by different Ellington constellations from 1927 on.

Interesting usage of the word "constellation". Bravo.

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:00 pm**

Eyeball wrote:
J-h:n wrote:...... by different Ellington constellations from 1927 on.
Interesting usage of the word "constellation". Bravo.

A bit of Swinglish, that, just like what you'll hear in Herräng. In Swedish it would just have been normal idiomatic usage; in English it takes on other meanings. I didn't even think about the astronomical sense of the word, but now that you mention it, it makes perfect sense.

Posted: **Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:24 pm**

Absolutely - perfectly fine use of the word. I never saw such, so I looked it up. Works for the Websters, works for me!

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:10 pm**

And of course, everybody who ever played in the Ellington band was a star.

Posted: **Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:48 pm**

J-h:n wrote:And of course, everybody who ever played in the Ellington band was a star.

Except Wallace Jones.

Posted: **Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:25 am**

Eyeball wrote:Except Wallace Jones.

Yeah, and maybe poor Billy Tailor during the time he literally played second fiddle to Blanton.

Posted: **Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:55 am**

J-h:n wrote:
Eyeball wrote:Except Wallace Jones.
Yeah, and maybe poor Billy Tailor..........

And almost 70 years later and the poor SOB can't even get his name spelled correctly.

Click here for "Wallace Jones Greatest Solos of All Time".

http://www.wallacejonesswings.com

Posted: **Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:18 am**

Eyeball wrote:
J-h:n wrote:Yeah, and maybe poor Billy Tailor..........
And almost 70 years later and the poor SOB can't even get his name spelled correctly.

Now I really feel bad for the guy. If I can't even spell his name myself, surely there's little hope. So, to make amends: Billy TAYLOR was an excellent, very underrated bass player who was unfortunate enough to be in the Ellington band when the genius Jimmie Blanton was hired. Still, Cootie Williams is said to have preferred him to Blanton for rhythmic support.

There. Much better.

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