Here's another must for sax instrumental buffs, with rare wax by Texas tenor
Clifford Scott and balladeer
Lynn Hope. You and a few million others heard
Scott on
Bill Doggett's classic "Honky Tonk"; here he is joined by organist
Hank Marr,
Charles Brown on piano, and other session cookers for five solid shufflin' sides.
Lynn Hope is a different character -- a Muslim who admired the record-selling style of
Earl Bostic, and in turn influenced a generation of ska hornsmen. In contrast to his lush romantic sound on "Stardust," "Tenderly," "Ghost of a Chance," etc., there's the bar-walkin' "Shockin'," jazzy "Juicy," swaggering "Little Landslide," and exotic "Sands of the Sahara." There are 20 tooters total and little duplication with
Hope's Saxophonograph material.