Jazz for aficionados

The Frogman:
Thanks for the info on LvB's 7th clip.

Cheers

Hi Rok - Frogman is correct.  Most Beethoven symphonies are scored for only two horns.  The exceptions are #3, which is scored for three, and #9, which is scored for four.  Sometimes you will see more than two players, though.  In these cases, some of the sections of the work are being doubled - many conductors like to do this, though the players themselves almost never like to do that.  Sometimes you might see three people out there in a piece scored for two, or more commonly five players out there for a piece scored for four horns.  In this case, the extra player is called the assistant.  They don't have their own part; they are there to assist the other players, mostly the principal.  Many principal players would use an assistant for such a difficult work as the Beethoven 7th, though there is not being one used in that particular clip.  

By the way, another reason that the conductor could be turning over many pages at once is if they are going back to take a repeat.  Or, they could have put a cut in the work.  In either case, you will see many pages being turned over at once.    

Hi O-10 - I have heard Sidewinder; I bought it on LP for my trumpet playing (not professionally) brother once, though I don't have my own copy.  I have not heard Search For The New Land.  Lee Morgan is one of his favorites, too.  

Learsfool, "Sidewinder" is a classic and probably his most famous recording; a great way for your brother to be introduced to Morgan.  I think that to get a good overview of Lee Morgan that at least one of his early (50s) recordings needs to be included.  One of my favorites (and from any period) is "Candy".  It is also a recording that preceded the "bugaloo" feel jazz thing that he got into in the 60's and which, personally, I'm a little mixed about.  He was 19 (!) when he recorded the record.  Lots of youthful energy and is the probably the first record that shows a clearer personal style:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLEED06302C1D6F617&params=OAFIAVgG&v=q8Fam5Gc50c&mode=NORMAL

I love that personal style.  He had it all; great technique, range, rich and warm tone and all that great use of half-valving and grea combination of slurs and tonguing within the same phrase.  And that swagger!  I love the way he would play a great phrase with blinding speed and then lay back right at the end of the phrase and pull the time back.  One of the truly distinctive stylists.

Of the 60s recordings, "Cornbread" is one of my favorites, if anything, for this tune alone; although I confess to a bias as it was one of the first jazz tunes I learned.  Hank Mobley's presence usually  makes a record special:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ECw3WAX41OA

Of his recordings as sideman the first that comes to mind is, of course, Coltrane's "Blue Trane"; a must-have record if ever there was one and one of my favorite Lee Morgan solos:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S1GrP6thz-k

For Lee Morgan in a larger ensemble setting this is a very interesting recording:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL7712663461AF2184&v=r6-LxABMbKE

Hope you will allow me, a jazz dilettante (and not an aficionado!) to jump in with a question on Lee Morgan.  Years ago (70s/80s)I recall enjoying an LP of his, "Live At The Lighthouse".  Confusing me now is that when I look at cover photos for this record, most seem to show him sitting (in sand under a boardwalk?).  My recollection of that LP was a black and white photo of him on an all black cover.  Might have been playing into a microphone...not sure.  Anyone know what I might be talking about?  Do I picture correctly The Lighthouse LP? or is there something else by him that looked the way I remember?? THANKS in advance for any attention you might care to give this bit of trivia/nostalgia.  I'm looking on line and yet to see the album that I seem to recall.