Obit: Alto sax & flute player Bud Shank (Apr 2009)

Subject: Obit: Bud Shank
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Apr 09 - 05:05 PM

Alto sax and flute player Bud shank died at 82. Besides being a fine jazz musician he played the flute solo on "California Dreaming." Yes, THAT guy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/music/07shank.html?hpw

Subject: RE: Obit: Bud Shank
From: michaelr
Date: 07 Apr 09 - 07:11 PM

Didn't he play on a number of Donovan songs?

RIP Bud.

Subject: RE: Obit: Bud Shank
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 07 Apr 09 - 07:18 PM

One of my all-time favorite jazz CDs is Brazilliance with Bud Shank and Laurindo Almeida. I've probably listened to it a hundred times and it remains as fresh and as exciting as the first time I heard it.
Shank was also a key player in Wst Coast Jazz in one of my favorite groups, Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Obit: Bud Shank
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 07 Apr 09 - 07:27 PM

Laurindo Almeida and Bud Shank brought Brazilian music to the attention of jazz aficionados quite some time before Charlie Byrd helped create the Bossa Nova craze in the early 1960's. I have records and CD's of both pairings and still enjoy them immensely. The Lighthouse, in Hermosa Beach, was a west coast bastion of jazz for years. Bud Shank was a mainstay and very much a part of the "west coast sound." Sad. So many of the players I saw, heard and enjoyed have left the scene.

By the way, both guitarists influenced a lot of players, including those in the folk scene who wanted to refine finger style playing and take it to another level. Still trying.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alto sax & flute player Bud Shank (Apr 2009)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 05:11 AM

RIP. Bud Shank always represented West Coast Cool for me.

Harold McNair was the flautist with Donovan and John Martyn.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alto sax & flute player Bud Shank (Apr 2009)
From: MartinRyan
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 05:40 AM

Lurking in the back of my brain is a memory of a very early bossa album which featured flute and french horn. Am I imagining things?

Regards

Subject: RE: Obit: Alto sax & flute player Bud Shank (Apr 2009)
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 05:50 AM

I used to love Bud Shank's duets with Bob Cooper. Extraordinary interplay. I was not totally in love with West Coast cool jazz, but those two were brilliant. And didn't they play with Jim Hall too? A legendary guitarist. I would imagine a surprising number of folkies would like Bud Shank and his many and varied experiments: a great man.

Subject: RE: Obit: Alto sax & flute player Bud Shank (Apr 2
From: Cool Beans
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 10:02 AM

I have an LP of Shank playing with Kimio Eto, the Japanese koto player. It's a lovely record, titled (logically) "Koto and Flute."