A sax version of misty - does it exist?

[ChrisP]

I'm trying to find a sax version of Errol Garner's classic "Misty"!
I don't know where to look! Does anybody know which artist I might try checking out?!

[Saundra Hummer]

It seems everybody played this song at one time or another. Did you see the Clint Eastwood movie "Play Misty For Me"???? The only movie I really enjoyed of his, and jazz prevails throughout the movie if I remember correctly.

[tonym]

If I'm not wrong it appears on the album Bob Brookmeyer & Friends which includes Getz on tenor and Ron Carter on bass (I think). It was on Columbia but I have looked for this a few times and as yet no copies have turned up.

[Tenorman]

The Getz/Brookmeyer version is arguably the definitive version. I got it on a compilation and have been looking around for the full session to no avail

[tonym]

That's the one Tenorman.

Do you know a while back someone at the BNBB told me it was available on ebay.
I am hoping though that this will be one album Legacy (if they have anything to do with it) will get 'round to remastering/reissuing soon.

cheers, tonym

[Tenorman]

Believe it or not it is on the Jazz FM compilation "Dinner Jazz" The only "real" Jazz CD they produced. David Freeman wrote the liner notes. Copyright for that version of Misty is with Sony Jazz, so it is probably lost forever

There is also a great Mulligan/Brookmeyer "Makin' Whoopee" on the disc

BTW. It is Bob Brookmeyer's birthday tomorrow 19th December. Happy Birthday Bob~pimp:

[Phil Kelly]

For a much more raucous take on Misty with sax, check out the old 50s version that was done by either Earl Bostic or Tiny Bradshaw ( forget which )

real greasy organ group shuffle stuff :eek2:

[Saundra Hummer]

Originally posted by Phil Kelly
For a much more raucous take on Misty with sax, check out the old 50s version that was done by either Earl Bostic or Tiny Bradshaw ( forget which )

real greasy organ group shuffle stuff :eek2:

I had forgotten all about Earl Bostic, not so much jazz as R&B., but he was really popular in our area when we were kids. Had fun listening to him. Raw fun.

[brownie]

Lou Donaldson had a beautiful rendition of 'Misty' on the 'Man With the Horn' CD album that Blue Note published several years ago. This was recorded in 1961 with Jack McDuff on organ.

[Jim R]

Dexter Gordon recorded "Misty" several times. Here are some CD titles:
Both sides of Midnight- Black Lion
Stable Mable- Steeplechase
(with Gene Ammons) The Chase!- Prestige
XXL- Prestige

[Munch]

Three more saxophone Misty's.

Illinois Jacquet on Newport Jam Sessions 1972. Sequel.

Teddy Edwards (and Howard McGhee), Together Again. OJC.

Ben Webster. Live At The Jazzhuis, Monmartre, Copenhagen, Volume 1, Jazz Colors.

[chuckyd4]

I was gonna mention the Dexter Gordon thing, too, but couldn't come up with the album titles off the top of my head. I knew somebody here would probably beat me to it.

[Quatermass]

Originally posted by Tenorman
Believe it or not it is on the Jazz FM compilation "Dinner Jazz" The only "real" Jazz CD they produced.

What about the Jazz of the Beat Generation CD they produced?

I wonder it they'll do a Main Stem and a Cutting Edge cd.