My favorite part of Tiger Rag by Elizalde Hot Music
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Yes, Quealey does sound a lot like Red Nichols on that recording.Quealey could come remarkably close to Red's style and sound of playing.Another record that comes to mind where Quealey sounds a lot like Red is the California Ramblers Columbia recording of Stockholm Stomp.Quealey's solo on that one really fooled me.When i first heard it i thought for sure it was Red until i read it was Quealey.
My favorite part of that Elizalde Tiger Rag recording is Bobby Davis alto sax solo.He seems to be playing an improvisation on Jimmy Dorsey's famous alto sax solo on Tiger Rag.
Dorsey played that solo basically the same way each time he recorded it as i have heard it on 2 different recordings and one film and he doesn't seem to improvise much.
But Bobby Davis plays a really good improvisation on it.I can recognize it is the Jimmy Dorsey solo but Davis does a lot with it where Dorsey seems to play it nearly note for note each time.
Dorsey plays his Tiger Rag alto sax solo even in the Movietone short by Walter Roesner and The Capitolians in the "Hottest Man in The Band" title.Dorsey plays it almost note for note like in other recordings where he plays the solo.
That Dorsey Tiger Rag alto sax solo must have been really famous and well known to musicians at that time because Dorsey even uses the solo in other recordings he made besides Tiger Rag.
I recall a Five Pennies recording-That's No Bargain- where he plays the Tiger Rag alto sax solo and again almost note for note like on other recordings where he played it.It is just possible that Dorsey's Tiger Rag alto sax solo was as well known in its day as Bix's solo on Singin' The Blues and Trams solo on Singin' The Blues.That Dorsey Tiger Rag solo just seems to show up again and again.
And now i hear Bobby Davis improvising on it in the Tiger Rag by Elizalde.