Thanks Stevie Wonder! From an offspring of the WWII Era Parents who danced to this music...You're In The Groove Jackson! ...And Let's Hear IT FOR VICKKI CARR FOLKS !!!
As someone once said, "It doesn't get any better than this". Ray is the best, and I remember him in "Sun Valley Serenade" with the Glenn Miller orchestra-- I think he was 18 at the time.
I was going to say I could tell by the sound of about 2 measures that it had to be Abe Most on clarinet, whose sound on the horn is easily one of the absolutely individualistic sounds the horn has ever known, and is completely out of the Creole / New Orleans tradition and conception. All I can venture to guess is that he played on a very large bore Leblanc with an extremely wide facing large chamber (Meyer? Lakey? Brilhardt?) mouthpiece and the hardest reeds you could find. It's about the most wide open sound to come out of any clarinetist who ever lived and probably about the loudest, live in person too. It is absolutely diametrically 180 degrees opposite of what the Buffet "sweetest clarinet ever made" mafia sounds like and preaches to be the biblical clarinet truth. As a clarinetist, I know there are a lot of clarinet players weaned on the universal Paris Conservatory approach who probably can not stand his tone. I am also one trained in that manner who has spent most of my life trying to shake off much of that rigid generic sound conception whenever it's not called for and I am not one who shares that prejudice / opinion. He didn't sound like Benny or Artie or Woody or Buddy DeFranco or Jimmy Dorsey or Jimmy Hamilton. He was as unique as any of them, and film of him is RARE. But he was a mainstay of the Les Brown band of the 1940s and played virtually every clarinet solo recreating Benny, Artie, Woody, and even himself on the mammoth big band Time/Life "The Swing Era" project recording sessions conducted by Billy May in the early 1970s.
Is that the great Frank Rossolino in the trombone section? Ray Anthony embodies the suave type of early 1960s male, doesn't he? He sort of reminds me of a young Hugh Heffner.
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