You can find Billy Novick vinyl versions through Amazon also…
Best wishes.
Steve
Billy is on David Bromberg’s Midnight On the Water album (playing clarinet mostly, maybe a whistle in there once).
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Yeah yeah here I go again but with my usual stupidity
I overlooked a fine example right on this forum.
Jazz you say? Educci is yer man! Serious playing.
No noodling no bull$hit.
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/alto-g-curved-head/90669/1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXMtOYqnN9s&feature=youtube_gdata_player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVyRiGSM1Lo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Cat can definitely cook.
Cormac Breatnach is also very good with jazz on a whistle.
No jazz here. Celtoid noodling but no jazz.
What is jazz really? There is structure involved, but at the heart of jazz is improvisation. You can’t tell me that John Coltrane wasn’t noodling on his live 25 minute version of “My Favorite Things”. Yes Cormac was mixing different elements, Celtic, Jazz, etc. But to say “no jazz”. Come on man that’s just crazy.
Subscribe to educciman’s youtube channel if you want to hear
someone playing jazz on a whistle type instrument.
Mixing different elements?
A few extra notes added to an Irish tune?
Comparing Coltrane to Breathnach?
All of this and calling it jazz is truly crazy.
Many years back when I lived in Boston I saw Billy Novick and a great guitarist, Guy Van Duser, in concert. Billy had played clarinet and then got out a whistle and said something like “Before they discovered wood they had to use these little metal clarinets.” Ah, memories.
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I’m a lapsed sax player (my work is too busy to maintain the embouchure), but I’m enjoying playing whistles and trying to wrestle them into working for proper jazz, or as proper as I can make it.
Apart from the resources already mentioned in this thread, there just aren’t many recordings around of jazz whistle. There are a few Youtube clips of people experimenting with flattened 3rds and 5ths. I’d agree with the OP that whatever jazz is, noodling isn’t really it.
Anyway, there is one really good jazz whistle tune from Howard Johnson available on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/2m84VSLwJTptybWQBJLDFZ?si=4uLKtWtCT66HTd3fQsNALA
There’s also a live version on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ficFWx6wAwc ), but I think the studio recording was smoother.
Someday I’ll put some stuff of my own up on Youtube. I did an experimental recording – the standard “But Not For Me”. I need way more practice and am not happy enough with it to put it public on Youtube, but if anyone here is interested, this unlisted link should work: https://youtu.be/TCL1OSUSDZA
(I was playing my MK F, not the Thunderbird A in the photo.)
Very nice!