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BlueNote
02-05-2006, 06:49 AM
Ok, so 2 years ago my high school band director (who is no longer at my school) at one point in the year burnt all of us jazz band members a mix CD of a few of the tunes we were doing at the time so we could hear how the tune went, you know.

One of the cuts on the album was of this latin tune we were doing at the time, called "Mambo de Paulo". The group is a big band from the sound of it, and I remember him saying it was recorded at a live concert/festival in Germany (so possibly a German big band). There's crowd noise, so it is live. It's a great tune! Anyway, there are two soloists-- trumpet, followed by tenor sax. The trumpet player plays some slick stuff in his solo, and some high note playing, but then takes a brief break on his last chorus as if he didn't know when to finish. Then the tenor soloist comes in. The tenor player has this incredibly FAT sound on his horn. He never told us the soloists, and even if he did, I can't remember them.

Does anyone (possibly Gary) have a clue as to what group this is and who the tenor saxophonist is? I can try emailing it if you need to hear it.

Vader
02-05-2006, 03:46 PM
I don't know how far you got with this, but I just tried to google everything that you mentioned in every concievable order, and came up with nothing.
Sorry.

gary
02-05-2006, 06:55 PM
I don't have any big band recordings wiith that title on it, Sorry.

Germany - so many bands, so many jazz concerts, so many good sax players, LOL.
If it was live and it was a German band it was likely Peter Herbholzheimer's band, the NDR, WDR, SWF or RIAS big bands, United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, i.e. alhough there are others - the Vienna Art Orchestria, the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra, might've been playing at a jazz festival. Of the sax players you could be talking about it could be Christof Lauer, but that's just a shot in the dark...might've even been Peter Ponzol, who knows? Or a non-German band at a German festival. At any rate, can't help you, sorry.

BlueNote
02-05-2006, 08:27 PM
Thanks anyway, guys.

Here's the tune if you want to hear it-

here (http://s36.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2G8DED4J8TWSH0X6R07P45YAJO)

gary
02-05-2006, 09:07 PM
Well, boy I could be wrong on this one, but that sounds a little ragged to me and some of the soloists don't sound seasoned; maybe like a good college band. If that's one of the professional German bands I mentioned I would be really surprised. Are you sure that this might not be a recording of your band director's college band on tour or something like that?

About the guesses I made above, stylistically, that is definitely not the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, the Vienna Art Orchestra, or the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra and that is definitely not Cristof Lauer. OTOH, Al Porcino had a big band here. I don't know how much rehearsal time they got. That might be Al Cohn on sax. I think they did a project together but I don't have any reference to check on it.

BTW, I think "Mambo de Paulo" means "Green Dolphin Street" in Spanish. ;)