Sax No End - Clarke/Boland Big Band

[jazzjanne1]

Awesome!

[Tigerped]

just awesome!

[videomania100]

Love the Big Band vibe!!! wow! this is great! there's a band in L.A. does big band with a twist. ck them out.

search cinnamon doll jazz

it's neil young's song arranged in big band style

[luka99medak]

I know this is a stupid question, but i'm trying to find something simular to this, but it goes: parara ra pa pa pa pa pa parararara rararara ra pum pum...

[arrourasanti2]

Derek Humble is  the man, hands down

[arrourasanti2]

i like the 19 minute version!

[mikeos1]

Tony is still terrific. We saw him last year with a big band. With new kneecaps he's as good as ever!

[GEhotpants101]

This is WAY better than today's pop music. I'd choose to listen to this over any Lady GaGa or Justin Beiber any day of the week.

[mikebuddy1]

I had the good fortune many years ago to haveTony Coe sit in on a session that we used to havey every sunday in dublin. He did have a sound & style that was unique and was playing great sax then. Is he still playing?

[PecosRiverBrass]

Another great chart from the pen of Francy Boland. It's as much fun to listen to as it is to play. He was a unique writer for big band with the way he voiced the sax section, and I too love the three tenor (like Woody) sound. Thanks for posting. John C. Smith, Dallas

[Alino17]

Tony Coe is a genius

[ricdeed]

Some amazing camera work there at 3:55-4:00. Cinematic brilliance.

[Drummerworld]

@ricdeed

Hope you're joking.... this is the baddest camerawork tipically from the 60'. They manage always to spot on the wrong player...and the new video effects - what a mess....brrrrrrr

[tobiasv134]

This is really nice

[jazz1bro]

amazing!!!

[sclogse1]

I have their stunning Handle With Care on reel to reel....and just got the CD in the mail today...seems to sound on CD like an early CD. Treble is wack. But, man...that album is huuuuuge. Get it.

[VangeVibran]

Fantastic!!!!

[Francozen]

Great vid, but can't you post the whole tune (if you have it of course) in 2 or 3 different parts?

[itmsjim]

Awesome!!! However, why have two drummers? It just means that everyone is making a little less cash ;-)

[Pralbpralbpralb]

The rhythm is presumably impossible to play with just two hands. Great recording.

[jazzobassoon]

55555555555555555555stars  fabulous men

[Henderbeast]

Does anyone know whether the five man solo was written especially for the guys or is a transcription of someone else's solo? Humble's loving it - he's outblowing everyone!

[bbconvention]

The piece was written by Francy Boland for the "Orchester Kurt Edelhagen" probably in 1962 as an arrangement of "Chinatown". It presented the different sections in the band and had special features for trumpets and trombones also. There were no improvised solos. This piece here is "only" the last part of the original version.

Neither is it a transcription (but original Boland), nor was it written for these guys. Derek Humble was a member of Edelhagen´s band in 1962 but the others weren´t.

[jammiebeez]

great to see a live rendition of this work which was on one of the first jazz records i ever bought and still after 30 years one of my favorites

[essaljay]

As far as I can recall Tony Coe has always had that style. Someone once said that "he doesn't play the saxophone, he paints notes in the sky with it" Some call it quirky, others call it genious. Count Basie liked it so much that TC was asked to join his band but he declined. Mancini liked it enough for TC to play the theme for "The pink Panther" for him.

[icedrum2]

WhenTC took over the lead alto later on in the Boland band, he really went places with his "inside-out" playing. I really fell for that thing. His alto tone is something else... I really recommend the records "White Hot", "Red Heat" and "Blue Flame" I know they're hard to find.

[idancejazz]

What is the cool if this movie/track is not cool...

[cbonew]

Ahhh! The nostalgia. Remember Tony Coe on alto in Humph's band - at the Conway Hall?

[luisamarte2000]

When you're improvising, there are no mistakes; because you're creating your own masterpiece at moments notice. There are too many anal-retentive perfectionists in this world who are just freaking bores.

[jazzflutist]

Sometimes, listening too closely, as either armchair critic or musician, can reveal seeming "mistakes". If you listen less critically - as a five year old might hear it, these mistakes become miraculously subsumed into a strange thing called music. All sounded good to me.

[bossanovasax]

Everyones an expert! unless your a sax player, SHUT UP !

[AL10Hermann]

für mich die geilste(verzeihung für dieses wort,aber bei "sax(!)no end"kein anderes wort möglich)big band aller zeiten.

Clarke/Clare an den Schlagzeugen sind einfach tierisch!dazu

die Mörder-Bläser Sektion.uuuiiihhh.Sehr gross!!!!!!!

[Egbert1957]

... kann ich nur beipflichten.

Die Sax No End Version LIVE at RonnysClub

ist noch um einiges besser.

Aber es gibt NOCH eine SUPER-Live-Version

von Orchester Kurt Edelhagen ca. aus dem Jahre

1962 oder 64, aus Tour-Ostdeutschland,

wo Boland viele Titel arrangierte und ein großer Teil

der Boland-Musiker NOCH bei Edelhagen in Köln waren.

[jazznutz]

Everyone is a critic. There are no duds here, just different things to say. Once again, Shut the hell up unless you are up there doing better.

This is real music.

[Seffrid]

Shame on you, that was no dud, that was a typically quirky Tony Coe solo. He was, and remains, a uniquely talented tenor player (you may have heard him playing in the Return of the Pink Panther and he's also unique among British musicians in having been offered a job with Count Basie's Orchestra). I've seen him many times including with the Clarke/Boland Big Band and he's never disappointed.

This video brings back a lot of memories of nights misspent at Ronnie's in the 60's and 70's!

[SaxJazz19]

I hear you... He doesnt suck but his ideas just didnt flow as well as the other guys ya know? I mean look at who he is taking a solo after. Johnny Griffin. By Far my fav of all time.

[Cheeseford]

Yes, Seffrid. Quirky's the right word. Tony's a unique player, and I think he was just trying to do something different to Johnny and Ronnie either side of him. They were both linear, so he went for angular. Bear in mind that this is a much abbreviated version of the number - all of the other live versions I've heard are at least 10 minutes long, giving each player a longer solo.

[hitmanisback]

i think all the players up there are great only 1 missing is tubby hayes but tony coe how original to play off the chords that way space and timing not quirky genius it is what seperates us mortal plyers from them

[Henderbeast]

I like the space that Tony puts into his solo; lets you think about the last phrase before playing the next

[hommefriday]

@Seffrid Although, I do feel he was more creative when playing the alto.

[SaxJazz19]

Second Solo was a dud

[blitzfisherman]

i think that he was trying to deviate from the first solo, but totally bombed, cause he didnt remember what it start out like

[tomvanbeelen85]

WOW... That was the best sax I ever had!

[Bari251]

Once again the wonderful Sahib Shihab on bari!! Great sound, great band!

[saulbeat]

wow - just got a record of this group - wow - all the records are cool as clarke and clare on on totally separate channels so you can actually check out what they are in invidually doing. clare seems to hold the back beat more and clarke does all the fiddly bits. in the snare. what a band !

[harrycarney2000]

Super Sax is surpassed?

[JerryTheJew123]

Usually I have nothing but mean an nasty things to say but, this is something really special. Two drummers swinging there ass's off, and these great sax guys!! Just great. The screen in the background, and the lead alto with the shades, gotta love it. I can't say enough.

[countcoupe]

Just being able to see footage of this band playing live is a honour. Clarke and Clare are a tour de force. I grew up listening to both volumes of the recordings of the band at Ronnie Scots club. Ronnie Scot is a national treasure.

[Marcelfbch]

I am absolutely of the same opinion as Cheeseford, the 2 super drummers are just great an do not at all spoil this fantastic band.

[MAJORSNODGRASS]

I saw Derek Humble in a small group setting several times in the late sixties/early seventies he was very good. Died young. Hit his head against a kerb stone in the street.

[Larryamg]

Two drummer thing sucks the whole thing down.

[Cheeseford]

When the two drummers are Kenny Clarke and Kenny Clare, it works just fine for me.

[allaaaah]

you're a twat !

[smutjunkie74]

@Larryamg I dont agree. Unique.

[kleitspark]

that swings

[jamieforjazz]

Derek Humble was one of the greatest lead altos-just ask Phil Woods.

[ohsnap69]

this is freaking amazing. i love how most of them are tenors :)

[artpinopasta]

clarke boland big band

[Strongscotch]

thats a SWINGIN' band... love it!!!