14. Eddie Condon’s All Stars, “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”

(W. Benton Overstreet-Billy Higgins)

For use with Lessons #13 and #15.

 

Style: Chicago

Personnel: “Wild Bill” Davison cornet, Billy Butterfield trumpet, Edmund Hall clarinet, Michael “Peanuts” Hucko clarinet, Robert “Cutty” Cutshall trombone, Lou McGarity trombone, Gene Schroeder piano, Eddie Condon guitar, Al Hall bass, Cliff Leeman drums. Recorded in 1954.

Issued on Columbia CL 616.

Reissued on Collectables 7526 and Mosaic MD5-152 Disc I.

The raw edge of the early Chicago Style gave way in the 1930s to the smoother, more swing-like sound that became commonly associated with the term “Chicago Style”. Eddie Condon, banjoist on the previous cut, switched to guitar and became the prime catalyst for this style. “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” is an extended jam session that includes a “double front line” of horns, all top players in this idiom. The performance ends with a “drum tag”, a device characteristic of this style.

Sequence for this track

0:00 Countoff and ensemble chorus, slow (Davison/Hall/Cutshall)

0:46 Clarinet solo (Hall) (8 bars ensemble harmony)

1:27 Trombone solo (Cutshall) 16 bars, cornet solo (Davison) 16 bars (8 bars ensemble harmony)

2:07 Drum solo transition to uptempo

2:11 Ensemble chorus (Butterfield/Hucko/Freeman/McGarity)

2:48 Tenor sax solo (Freeman) (8 bars ensemble harmony, ensemble on last bar)

3:26 Trumpet solo (Butterfield) (12 bars ensemble harmony, ensemble on last 2 bars)

4:02 Piano solo (8 bars ensemble harmony, ensemble on last 2 bars)

4:38 Clarinet solo (Hucko) (8 bars ensemble harmony, ensemble on last bar)

5:15 Trombone solo (McGarity) (8 bars ensemble riffs)

5:22 Ensemble chorus (Davison/Hall/Cutshall)

6:28 Key change, ensemble chorus (Butterfield/Hucko/Freeman/McGarity)

7:05 Drum tag (4 bars drums, 4 bars ensemble)

Eddie Condon