APRIL 7, 1941
Monday |
WHATS NEW? THE OLD GOLD SHOW |
NBC Radio Network / WJZ, NYC |
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12-BAR BLUES |
Key of |
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G |
Quarter Note = |
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202 |
Time: |
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2:14 |
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4-Bar Intro + 9 CHORUSES: |
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• |
2 chor
muted trumpet |
(over CC
& ens theme riffs) |
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♪ |
2 chor CC |
(over ens riffs) |
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• |
1 chor muted trumpet |
(over CC
& ens riffs) |
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• |
1 chor CC
& ensemble |
(theme riffs) |
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Benny Goodman and his Sextet |
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Composed by: |
Charlie Christian - Count Basie |
Wholly Cats:
Guitar Solo
“What’s New? – The Old Gold Show”
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C&A:
Eight weeks after the first “What’s New? – The Old Gold Show” Wholly Cats
again gets recorded on the weekly program, with the same cast and with the
piano solo restored to its usual place between sax and guitar.
This is one version of the tune where the riffing behind Charlie Christian
definitely clashes unnecessarily with his solo. Presumably the radio studio
mikes were placed to close to the other horns. Thankfully, Charles gets two
choruses for his solo whereas all other soloists are cut back to one chorus
apiece.
Charles starts off placidly with an instantly-muted open-string note
introducing an almost casual phrase. Then he’s off on one of those
unrelenting fast blues solos with scarcely a breath allowed the listener, maybe just
half-a-beat between endless ideas cascading from the man and his instrument.
Measures 7 and 8 of the second chorus: G6 chord-notes on the down beat, each
preceded by a passing tone a semitone lower creating a step-wise effect – a
procedure usually used in a more defined and prolonged manner. On the
antepenultimate measure he almost runs himself aground but sorts it all out
and continues with a sequence similar to bar six of the first chorus but
rhythmically inverted.
All of his broadcast-version Wholly Cats solos are outstanding, possibly
topped by this final breathless one – here in the radio studio it is ‘live’
without the studio restrictions of re-takes and practice and re-runs and
such. |
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[ LP ] |
Festival |
ALB 377 |
(side D, track 5) |
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Jazz Anthology |
JA 5181 |
(side B, track 5) |
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Jazz Archives |
JA-23 |
(side B, track 5) |
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[ CD ] |
Archives of Jazz |
380123 2 |
(track 13) |
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Archives of Jazz |
389123 2 |
(track 13) |
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Definitive |
DRCD11177 |
(disc 4, track 1) |
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Galaxy |
389944 2 |
(track 13) |
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JSP |
JSP909 |
(disc 4, track 1) |
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Masters of Jazz |
MJCD 75 |
(track 4) |
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Stardust |
CLP 1150-2 |
(track 13) |
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