Big Band Tuesday

I love the way Donald keeps sidetracking the band in this clip..

Kicked off by Ejaydee and Steenbeck's discussion about Pete Rock, I looked up the sample he used for T.R.O.Y., which was a sixties recording by saxophonist Tom Scott.

Scott also played some very nice Saxello on a 7/4 version of "Freedom Jazz Dance" by the Don Ellis big band.
The second piece is "Ahunk Ahunk", by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis big band, another innovative, late sixties-early seventies big band also sampled by Pete Rock.

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