{"id":16863,"date":"2010-02-15T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T18:32:24","slug":"and-now-for-something-totally-quirky-in-the-realm-of-contrabass-saxophone-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2010\/and-now-for-something-totally-quirky-in-the-realm-of-contrabass-saxophone-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now For Something Totally Quirky In The Realm Of Contrabass Saxophone Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bassoonist, Dave Wells<\/a>, happened across an old vinyl record\u00a0by The<\/em> Burbank Philharmonic<\/em>,<\/a> while in\u00a0a thrift shop in Madison, Wisconsin.\u00a0This recording, which Internet research indicates may have been released in 1970<\/a>, appears to have been the band’s first, and perhaps last album.<\/p>\n

On this album, The<\/em> Burbank Philharmonic<\/em>\u00a0took pop songs of the day, such as: Hey Jude, Spin\u00adning Wheel, King Of The Road, Light My Fire<\/em>, among others, and performed them in a Dixieland style. If this wasn’t unusual enough, the bass saxophone part that one might find in a trad jazz band, was replaced by a contrabass.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: S. Robinson<\/h6>\n

Dave Wells describes the band like this:<\/p>\n

Here, the con\u00adtra is part of a mix of instru\u00adments \u2014 trum\u00adpet, clar\u00adinet, banjo, trom\u00adbone, string bass, Ham\u00admond organ, accor\u00addion, and drums that cre\u00adate sort of a psuedo-neo-Dixieland band. The whole record is quite strange, but most of it falls squarely into the good\/funny-weird cat\u00ade\u00adgory. Here\u2019s my favorite track from the disc, one that promi\u00adnently fea\u00adtures the mas\u00adsive con\u00adtra\u00adbass sax:\u00a0<\/p>\n

These Boots Are Made For Walking<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately credits were not given to the individual musicians on the album, so we don’t know who the contrabass saxophonist was who performed with\u00a0The Burbank Philharmonic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Given that this recording\u00a0was likely done around 1969 or ’70, the contrabass would most likely be of the vintage variety. Therefore, the possible list of players is\u00a0quite\u00a0small, given that there would have been perhaps only 20 or\u00a0less of these instruments in existence worldwide.<\/p>\n

In any event, this is certainly the most unusual recording of Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots\u00a0Are Made For Walking<\/em>, that I’ve ever heard. How about you?\u00a0 Oh, and in case you’re wondering what the original might have sounded like, here is a\u00a0video of Nancy Sinatra<\/a> performing her\u00a0#1 hit song on an\u00a0Italian TV program, in 1966.<\/p>\n

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