Boots Randolph- Sax Sational

DSCN2385I think I got this before the labor day sale so it would have been a dollar.  It had a bunch of great instrumental tunes on it.  This is the second sax record I posted this month.  What am I thinking?1961_march_25_hawaii_uss_arizona_benefit_concert_boots_randolphThis is also the second album I posted from Nashville Session SaxMaster, Boots Randolph.  Like I said, above, tunes like “Desafinado”, Tuff”, “You Can’t Sit Down”, and “Tequila” made it worth checking out.  Also, who does not like yet another version of “Danny Boy”.  “Night Train” is also on this but after you hear/ see James Brown’s version, it kind of ruins all others.

This record, released in 1967, may have been his tenth.  It is ok.  Kind of standard interpretations of the songs.  Quite honestly, in the back of my mind, I did not expect anything different.  There is nothing really bad on this album but there is nothing that really jumps up and grabs you either.DSCN2386

For a sample, I went with the before mentioned “Night Train”. Kind of pales in comparison to the video, huh? That is a bit unfair, I know.

**FILE** Boots Randolph performs at The Nashville Tennessean Centennial Park concert, Aug. 2, 1964, in Nashville, Tenn. Randolph, whose spirited saxophone playing on songs like "Yakety Sax" made him one of Nashville's top musicians, died Tuesday, July 3, 2007. He was 80. Randolph suffered a cerebral hemorrhage June 25 and had been hospitalized in a coma. (AP Photo/The Tennessean, Frank Empson, File) **MANDATORY CREDIT**

Meh. I mean he is a talented sax man, but  this does not really do it for me.

 

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