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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:49:34 -0000
From: "collegeharry2004" <ianlouisiana@...>
Subject: 4 to the bar and no messing...

Mr Freddie Green was the master of course,but older members may
recall Steve Jordan on John Hammond Sr.'s "Vanguard" sessions.He
played an L5 as opposed to Freddie's Stromberg or (later)
Gretsch.Going back even further you could check out Alan Reuss with
BG although he did play chord solos (Pickin' with Patsy" probably his
best known).
If you want to hear Mr Green more clearly try "Mostly blues..and some
others" by the Count Basie septet on "Pablo" or "Rambo" from
Manhattan Transfer's "Vocalese" album.
An oddity but well worth listening to if you can find is "Breakin' it
up on Broadway" by the Dukes of Dixieland with Jim Hall on rhythm
guitar(try "Lady be good") and "Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band" on
Good Time Jazz with the great Barney Kessel is on the face of it even
more unlikely,but jazz is a broad church indeed.
Ray Anthony may have been no Count Basie but he was a pretty good
Harry James."Jam session at the Tower" wasn't a jam session
either,but the first jazz album recorded by Capitol in their new
premises.I've never heard of Nick Bonney before or since but he does
a pretty good Freddie Green.
Finally Frank Sinatra's "Lover" with George Siravo and his orchestra
has some wonderful 4 to the bar guitar playing.I always understood it
to be by George van Eps but am happy to be put right if this is not
so.

Interesting to see the name Allan Reuss. My understanding is that the
"Freddie Green" style was something Freddie Green learned from
Allan Reuss. Undoubtedly the origins and the development of the
technique is more complicated than that, but still he deserves
significant credit. I play in a big band that does a lot of Basie
tunes and that style really adds a lot to that music and it is fun to play.
It can be challenging too at times (e.g. playing a couple of bars of passing chords
in complicated rhythms that match the horns and at a significant tempo).

Mike