WOODY HERMAN
ENCORE 1963
Caldonia
I was in college when this was released and like a few other recordings, this was on everyone’s stereo playing at top volume. Sal Nistico totally kills it. A little bit of trivia that most people know by now is that tenor player Sal Nistico and arranger Sammy Nestico are cousins. It’s really a kick given the spelling of their names.
Another thing about this chart that always knocked me out is the double tonguing trumpet section. But I once asked a friend who was in Woody’s trumpet section how difficult it was to play. He said it wasn’t difficult at all,usually, as the technique is something all trumpet players learn. But he said that sometimes Woody would sometimes count off this and other tunes at ridiculous tempos. From what he told me this recording was really at best medium tempo.
Woody Herman (cl, voc), Tommy Anastas (bars), Gary Klein, Sal Nistico, Joe Romano (ts), Bill Chase, Paul Fontaine, Billy Hunt, Danny Nolan, Gerald Lamy (t), Henry Southall, Phil Wilson, Kenny Wenzel (tb), Nat Pierce (p), Chuck Andrus (b), Jake Hanna (d).
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