Mezzrow - Lyttleton 1986

Mezzrow - Lyttleton 1986 Humphrey Lyttleton and his Band in 1986. Humph is one of the most unique jazz musicians from the UK. The tune "Mezzrow" is a 32 bar tune with a wonderful chord pattern to improvise on. One reason or another clarinettist Mezz Mezzrow recorded a tune with these chord patterns several times with his good friend Sidney Bechet It has always been one of my favourite tunes and wherever we played I tried to fit it into the program. I learned it from one of Humph's recordings.Obviously it was one of Humph's favourites as well. Here he has set an interesting head arrangement and eventually he changes to clarinet and so do Bruce Turner and Johnny Barnes and the tune ends up with a three clarinet ensemble.This tune is also known as Revolutionary Blues

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: erwigfilms

Length: 05:54
Rating: 5.00
Views: 1422

Tags: Barnes  classic  jazz  lyttleton  revival  Turner  

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