> On Behalf Of mark romero > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [VFB] Howdy > > Alan, are you making the Sowbug this year? Hope so. OH! and for all those > who don't know....... FATHEAD was Ray's tenor player for somewhere between > 20 and 30 years. mark.....
[jerry goldsmith] BTW, the only sax solo you ever need to hear in the rock and roll genre is Fathead's 12(?) bar intro to "The Night Time is the Right Time". Mark, How did you come to know Fathead. I did not know but had did meet him twice. Providence, R.I. 1964 and again in NYC in the late 60's I played in a rock band in High School and lived in Fall River, Mass. Being next door to Newport, R.I. I saw and heard virtually every act at the first 5 Newport Jazz Festivals. In addition, most the acts played in small clubs before and after the Newport gigs in Fall River, Newport (Viking Hotel), Boston (Paul's Mall) and in Providence (that great club in East Providence at the six corner's intersection) and, of course the MECCA, Birdland in NYC. Over the year's got to know some of them pretty well. My bass teacher was pretty well known and sat in a lot of sets and I was fortunate to be hanging around and meeting and listening to the grteat from the 40's 50's and 60's. The other all time, all time sax solo was the famous 27 bar solo that Paul Gonsalvez one of Ellington's band members played in in Newport in 1956, Have you ever heard Ellington's New Orleans suite. Almost too powerful to bear. As I recall Hodges died in the middle of the recording sessions. Man, I am pulling out the old VINYL and cranking up the speakers as I type. JG
