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That is insane! Sounds like he was a big influence on Maynard. I need to find more of his records.

This is INSANE!

So clean!

You could tell Cat was fighting it with this performance. Such is the nature of the instrument. I've heard the trumpet described as the coil of torture.

Anything about Cat I like. And he's better than the much-vaunted Louis Armstrong ever thought of being.

That's a very thin sound with no core. Articulation is sloppy. It's impossible to have a good sound when you play a mouthpiece that is so tight in diameter and shallow, like a dime with a dent in it. If you look at the mouthpiece that Cat played, it's obvious that Cat had to curl his lips way in in order to play on it without bottoming out. It's a mouthpiece that allows someone to play with lip squeaks on a dry embouchure. You can't get a good sound and articulate well on the horn when you play like that on such a curled-in embouchure. He traded all other trumpet playing attributes for the ability to play the squeaky high notes. And he's the only trumpet player ever who was willing to make that sacrifice. And the consequence of the matter is that he is known for being a squeaky high note player, who could never play lead because he didn't have the big sound and ability to forcefully articulate lead trumpet lines. He was just a specialist who could squeak out extremely high notes. He was not known as a great jazz player, either. Even among the high note guys, he's not thought of as being among the greatest, such as Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen, Johnny Madrid, those kinds of guys. This video illustrates the extreme degree to which Cat Anderson curls his lips in.

BRAVO BRAVISIMO!

I can understand the Kern family being upset. This chart was light years ahead of it's time.

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One of my all time favorite jazz trumpeters

Steve is an amazing player. Thanks for posting.

Cat starts high and goes higher! But like Arturo Sandoval, he was a great all-around trumpeter too. Also, this shows that Duke's band could bop as hard as Bird or Dizzy or anyone else.

Absolutely fantastic! Blows it out of this world. Carry on, Bobby. Carry on.

I’ve known Bobby since I was 18 - I’m 61 now. I made the mistake of not studying with him until I was 46. In 5 hours, over a two day period he added a functional octave to my range (I had been stuck on G on the staff since I was 16). I am friends with him to this day and we talk regularly. I don’t understand why guys are so focused on his weight. The guy is now 80 and can play better than anyone else his age and almost assuredly better than any of his critics, despite his health challenges. Probably the most brilliant man I know and is STILL the go to guy for pro players who have chop issues.

Bobby is fabulous. It's hard enough to play that at sea level, no to mention doing it at 4500 feet!!

I got to hear him at a Arkansas State University clinic in 1975 playing with their jazz band. I was 15 and had been playing the trumpet for 6 years. Didn't know who was. He just blew me away.

Damn. Maynard in his early 20's.

This kind of cat actually makes me purr.

Eric has such a magical effect on young musicians in Japan, exciting them about the big bands. When we were young students at Berklee, that enthusiasm was very apparent and his love for the music ensured he would spend a fruitful career pursuing it as Maynard and Buddy Rich had both seen in him even back then. He is quite simply - a phenomenon!

So at 14 I was attending Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, it was my 3rd or fourth year there and that year my major was Jazz Band. So at the beginning of the week we were told we'd be playing with Cat Anderson, and being I had already played in jazz band at High School for one, maybe two years, so I knew a bit about jazz. So when were given a piece of music to work up for that week end's concert and it was in 6/8 I kinda figured it was in Bee Bop style of like a cut time of a 3/4 swing. But no we all rehearsed it as Bossa Nova at a medium bpm. And I was told I'd be soloing near the beginning. So I did my best to work up a Wes Montgomery octave solo thing for the spot I knew I'd be in line for my soloing, because at the time I was big into playing Wes Montgomery stuff. And each day we'd work up the piece at that 60, 70 maybe 90 bpm pace, in Bossa Nova Swing style. So come that Saturday evening and Cat walks on the stage....Ha well damn I shoulda stuck to my guns and practiced it as I initially thought it would be played. Because sure as shootin the Cat came on stage and clicked it off at about 140 maybe 150 bpm and oh hell here we go... and soon into it I get the point...what was it Jackie Gleason used to say...Ah Hummina Ah Hummina Ah Hummina. Yeah my eyes as big as saucers and in near panic mode I stumbled through my best attempt at getting it down all into the ever shrinking space I had to fit it into...and whew when that was done I was just relieved it was all over and I could melt back into the back drop of the rest of the rhythm section...but no soon after again, the finger goes right to me again...oh hell that was all I had worked up and so... well I really have no idea what I played next or again when the point came back to me one more time...all I know is ...I didn't stop shaking for about an hour after the concert. I mean there were nearly a thousand people out there or so it seemed and .... wow what a way to get the baptism of fire. Still to this day I haven't been able to recollect what the song's title was. This does kinda seem like it but only someone very familiar with Cat and his songs would know which of the songs Cat played would have been written in that 6/8time, and I'd really like to know what it was.

That guy can play

Eric's father played trumpet thus the influence but Eric said he's self taught to this day. There was a story when he was on Buddy's band that he took up some parts from the book and Buddy said " I want it that way every night! " Eric said his chops were on a tailspin and called Bobby Shew for help. End of story.....

Que bestia!!! Lastima no haber podido verlo en un concierto en vivo.

Wow!! 😮

Thanks for the post. I was only fortunate enough to hear Chase live 3 times, but you know, DAAAAMN! Bill Chase - taken from us so young. May he rest in eternal peace.

2020??? lol

Great memories of a Cat concert at the University of Illinois around '74 or '75. After a clinic in the Music Dept. he gave a concert at the Auditorium. No widespread appreciation of big band jazz on campus. Sadly the concert was sparsely attended. My favorite memory was when Cat cajoled a couple of students into sitting up and getting their feet off the tops of the seats in front of them. They were sitting like slobs and Cat reminded them they wouldn't do that in their Mom's house. The students got the message and sat up to give the performance the respect it deserved,. Cat was great. I was so thrilled to see it for free just a couple of rows away from the stage.

Jerome Kern's family was so horrified by this arrangement they took legal action when the Charlie Barnet band played it and again when the Stan Kenton orchestra featured Maynard on the same arrangement. It worked out because it prompted Kenton to commission Shorty Rogers to come up with a new feature chart for Maynard and the result was the iconic chart "Maynard Ferguson".

Perfect!!!!!

This is hard for a trumpet player to watch when you can feel Cat struggling to find the slot. Not a clean flowing sound, certainly fatigued, but, he was one of the best monster lead players of all time and also why I enjoy playing the 2nd book!

I played a con constellation for ten years. That is definitely a constellation Cat can play. His jazz choruses are great.

Best cat Anderson song ever. Hands down.

Excellent

Jesus christ these comments are old

2:17 Donna Lee?

Thanks man. I needed that. First time I've seen video of that tune. Thanks once again!

Go cat go

I loved the vocals by GG Shinn already from start, when Chase came.

What a cool band to play in. Total professional...............................Love it.

Beautiful work Eric.

Wow, such tone and style!

Love Charley!!!

Terrible

Truly amazing, Maynard was way ahead of his time, Iwas lucky enough to see Maynard live when he did a tour in the UK early 1970s. Master of upper register trumpeting. Inherited this on a 78 rpm, story goes Mrs Kern didn't think the Charlie Barnet band with Maynard on solo trumpet didn't befit the song and duly pulled any more pressings, hence quite a rare 78 now. RIP Maynard true legends never die. Thanks for posting!!

What a musical treasure. Man was a true talent

You were right Dennis.