Ill-Bill: Illinois Jacquet II
(7 downloads)Saturday, Jan 19, 2008
As part of the president’s inauguration ceremony in 1993, Illinois Jacquet joined fellow tenor saxophonist, Bill Clinton in an interpretation of the “C-Jam Blues” on the White House lawn; a musical event in presidential politics bookended by “Don’t Stop (Thinking about tomorrow)” and Al Gore's “Taking Care of Business”, but not quite sealing the deal. This was a big event in the launch to the Clintons' extended dance mix honeymoon housewarming party that seemed to carry into 1994 when everyone had to go back work with a big hangover.I could be wrong, but the Blues we have here is in F, another very manageable key for the horn players. Not that anyone at this recording session would have needed a crutch, the future former President (and perhaps soon to be first mate) wasn’t even born yet. This recording actually took place in January of the same year as Clinton’s birth.
It is not Jacquet who gets the spotlight in “Jacquet’s Blues”, which moreso features Emmett Berry’s trumpet trading off solos with Jacquet and piping in a short cadenza at the end for a tastefully understated finale.
Savoy 651, 1946