Spåmans Big Band in Thad Jones - Central Park North

[jazzjanne1]

Bandet låter alldeles utmärkt! Kul att höra!

[guitarman4871]

this is about the whitest version i've ever heard

[linlasj]

@guitarman4871 THank you:-)

[lickingravy999]

great chart. vintage recording, Nice!

[lindingmar]

Dandiacal! As I've played so much in my days, my ears are destroyed and I can't listen to any music now. BUT, at once you mentioned those four chords, I immediately got them in my head! Thanks! Now I'm flowing... Many of those kids and girls ARE proffs instrumentalists and/or teachers today. Spåman himself is active in (Swedish) "Saxomania", as I was 5-12 years ago. Keep swingin' and take care of your ears!

[jamied1969]

the actual tonality of this sounds remarkably like the original but the drummer is all over the place, making it sound like the record is skipping..

[lindingmar]

We were about five grown up in the band. The greater part in the band were between 14-17 years of age! Yee, what a time! /The piano player

[dandiacal]

I played this chart too, in high school: those great chords that Thad wrote for the piano before the ballad B section. Except for the electronic skipping, you guys sound GREAT here. What happened to all of you? Great articulation, funk playing!

[linlasj]

@dandiacal We are still around...the young guy sitting next to me...is a trumpet player in Sweden.

[gasiraz]

it sounds good as long as you don't compare it with the original by the Jones Lewis Band. I can say It's quite a very difficult chart according to the copy I bought several years ago

[ljunglar]

Don´t fear. We know ......

[linlasj]

Compare as much as you like. The original is the Original. And Mr Jones himself actually listened to the tapes once. And he liked it. He and the soprano/alto sax player. Jerome Richardsson...that was it.

[linlasj]

@gasiraz Nothing is comparable to that band. Nothing.

[PantsTyler]

This a young band? Sounds good.

[linlasj]

Mingusmonk0 they were, several of them. The first I saw was the U.S., often played by US bands at that time.

[finalzenith]

excellent band, i wish the recording was better :(

[ljunglar]

So do we. It´s a private PVR used and they wasn´t better at the time :-(

[linlasj]

@finalzenith Thank you. We had a good time. Believe me.

[mingusmonk0]

Wow, I never knew this chart was published.

[stpd1957]

They are terrific.

[BobHardy1]

Well ... GREAT!!!!!