10/16/2007 Dig Up The Roots

Eddie Sauter was a trumpet player, but most notably an arranger with a unique sense of what a tune should sound like. If modern jazz was moving in this direction (hold one of your arms out) Eddie was moving, with no uncertainty, in the opposite. Interested in every sound and piece, Sauter developed interesting and unique ways of physically locating people in recording sessions (before the days of numerous microphones and multi tracking) to isolate sounds and really bring out harmonics.

On this show we heard work that he did with Mildred Baily Red Norvo (1930's); Benny Goodman (1940's - 50's) and also Stan Getz (1960's). The album FOCUS by Getz had an amazing web of stings under neath the loosely improvised horn work. Another Getz/Sauter collaboration was the soundtrack to the film 'Mickey One'. A schitzoid whirl thru the Polish Chicago underground.

A record I've been looking for for a very long time was also heard: Inside Sauter-Finegan. A showcase album from the mid 1950's featuring the work of two arrangers going crazy impressing themselves (Bill Finegan was an arranger for Glenn Miller).