Bob Florence Big Band Live at Concerts By The Sea - A Remembrance

Bob Florence Big Band at Concerts By The Sea:
A Remembrance
Recorded live June 15-18, 1979
Remastered for video January 2023
00:00 Introduction
00:25 Bebop Charlie *
09:39 Lonely Carousel
16:06 Evie
22:44 Wide Open Spaces
30:39 I'll Remember
37:25 Party Hearty
46:47 Closing credits and Auld Lang Syne
Trumpets - Buddy Childers(lead), Gene Goe, Nelson Hatt, Steve Huffsteter, Warren Luening
Trombones - Charles Loper, Chauncey Welsch, Don Waldrop, Herbie Harper
Woodwinds - Bob Hardaway*, Bill Perkins, Bob Cooper, Kim Richmond, Lee Callett, Pete Christlieb, Ray Pizzi
Bass - Joel DiBartolo
Drums - Nick Ceroli
Composer, Arranger, Leader, Piano - Bob Florence
Recorded June 15, 16, 17 & 18, 1979 at Concerts By The Sea, Redondo Beach, California
1. Be Bop Charlie [9 min, 35 sec]
Piano soloist - Bob Florence
Tenor Saxophone soloist - *Bob Hardaway (played only on this tune)
Trombone soloist - Charlie Loper
2. Lonely Carousel [6 min, 23 sec]
Flugelhorn soloist - Warren Luening
3. Evie [6 min, 37 sec]
Alto Saxophone soloist - Ray Pizzi
Electric Piano soloist - Bob Florence
4. Wide Open Spaces [7 min, 50 sec]
Trombone soloist - Chauncey Welsch
Piano soloist - Bob Florence
5. I'll Remember [6 min, 40 sec]
Tenor Saxophone, Soloist - Pete Christlieb
6. Party Hearty [9 min. 36 sec]
Piano soloist - Bob Florence
Tenor Saxophone, Soloist - Bob Cooper
Trumpet, Soloist - Warren Luening
Total video time: 48 min, 16 sec
Liner notes by Herb Wong
Produced by Albert Marx

[@ericchase9278]

RIP Nick Ceroli, an amazing drummer taken much too soon!

[@smctrout4423]

Chauncy Welsch was a very musical soloist. He played a great solo on "Soaring."

[@RichardFenno]

This record means so much to me . . . I am so glad to be hearing this again!

[@jondeshler]

I was very fortunate to be able to hear this band rehearse Saturday mornings at Bill Yeager's spot in Van Nuys, CA many times. At that time I was working next door to Calicchio Trumpets, on Willoughby in Hollywood, at a quantity repro lab. At the time I was also taking trumpet lessons from Nelson Hatt, a dear friend and mentor.

[@Drumcam]

This is a beautiful remembrance of some really great musicians you have put together here! Thank you!

[@TGmovier]

Thank you too!

[@smctrout4423]

I read an obituary of Bob Florence which compared him to Duke Ellington. Not an overstatement.

[@snav_]

So happy to finally see this online!

[@randidey3349]

Ce sont de sacrées pointures... Solistes et lecteurs qu'on appelle ""Des requins"