{"id":896,"date":"2007-04-06T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=896"},"modified":"2007-04-06T12:18:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T19:18:02","slug":"correspondence_charlie_barnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/04\/correspondence_charlie_barnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: Charlie Barnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rifftides <\/em>reader Hans Christian D\u00c3\u00b6rrscheidt writes from Germany:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having listened to Barnet&#8217;s various bands from the 30s-60s a lot recently, I&#8217;d agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/archives\/2007\/04\/cannonball_adde.html\"target=\"_blank\">Cannonball&#8217;s description<\/a>. While Barnet probably won&#8217;t be counted among the great innovators of jazz saxophone playing, he certainly was a very individual player, always true to himself, be it on alto, tenor, or the soprano. And he always had good bands going, too!<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XX74gt6CcRs\"target=\"_blank\">interesting Barnet clip<\/a>, from late 1948\/early &#8217;49, C.B. and band playing &#8220;East Side, West Side&#8221;. That&#8217;s Doc Severinsen playing the trumpet solo. Danny Bank is on baritone sax, and Bunny Briggs is the singing telegram guy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L5B5IBZh7zw\"target=\"_blank\">This clip <\/a>is Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra playing &#8220;Skyliner&#8221;, from the November 1950 Snader Telescriptions session. The young Bill Holman can (more or less) be seen playing tenor in the section. The piano soloist is Arnold Ross.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to be contradictory, but the pianist appears to be Don Trenner. The alto saxophonist next to Holman is Dick Meldonian. I think I see Johnny Coppola in the trumpet section. Thanks to Mr. Doerrscheidt for the video alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rifftides reader Hans Christian D\u00c3\u00b6rrscheidt writes from Germany: Having listened to Barnet&#8217;s various bands from the 30s-60s a lot recently, I&#8217;d agree with Cannonball&#8217;s description. While Barnet probably won&#8217;t be counted among the great innovators of jazz saxophone playing, he certainly was a very individual player, always true to himself, be it on alto, tenor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}