"DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS?": KELLSO, MUNISTERI, ROBINSON, O'LEARY (5.2.21)

Beauty with an improvisatory heartbeat -- created for us and for passers-by by The EarRegulars outside of The Ear Inn, 326 Spring Street, Soho, New York City: Scott Robinson, C-melody saxophone; Jon-Erik Kellso, trumpet; Matt Munisteri, guitar; Pat O'Leary, string bass. Performed before Hurricane Ida attacked New Orleans, but offered now as a song of healing and hope. Recorded with gratitude by Michael Steinman for JAZZ LIVES (www.jazzlives.wordpress.com).

[@apm109]

I remember Munisteri from the Brock Mumford days. Great writer and player!

[@davidgrieve3761]

Great tune, great musicians.

[@MauriatOttolink]

Glad I read the notes. Was just about to ask if that was a C melody sax. By its construction, it looks like a Conn. Great player. Very inventive, melodic solo, sitting right on the middle of the chords. Proud to say that I once played that tune in N.O. at the Crescent City Brewery on Decatur. It was a life-time pilgrimage! Gotta say that I did it on tenor and that puts it into D major, for me a more comfortable key than in C on the C melody. He certainly handled it better than I would have done on a C melody. Great music, great playing, great memories! Thank you! (Loved the guitar chords and solo. Guitar is my 2nd love. Wife is well down the list!) Those vital 2.5,1s of the middle 8 (Bridge) were well defined & came across unmistakably. Great video. Still got the smile on my limey face. "I miss it both night and day!"

[@dugsdale]

Thanks guys. Sounds wonderful! It's one of my favorite tunes, and I loved hearing you play it.

[@GordonHudson]

I love the C Sax, it has a tone of its own. Not heard often enough.

[@grumpyoldfart1945]

Beautiful! Thanks, guys.

[@lesterwyoung]

Lovely tone from the C-melody. What a perfect little band!

[@johnrothfield6126]

Wow these guys are fabulous.

[@elianadelpizzo5121]

Pérolas da boa música . Obrigada 👏👏👏

[@whamni]

Excellent

[@ninakim7282]

Great.

[@richardsalvucci3472]

Why did C melody disappear?

[@swingyoucats]

Others can correct me but it came out of the saxophone craze of the Twenties, and if you were not a skilled musician, you could play what the pianist was playing without transposing. It had only Trumbauer as its prime advocate, and I don't think arrangers wrote for it. It sounds so pretty, though, when a skilled player can keep it in tune.

[@richardsalvucci3472]

@@swingyoucats thank you!

[@richardsalvucci3472]

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