Fox Hunt – Bill Barron
This evocative uptempo swing begins and ends with a hunting call, which kicks off a scrambling chase through the keys. Fox Hunt is equal parts captivating and challenging!
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- Recording: Bill Barron - Tenor Stylings Of Bill Barron
- Recorded on: February 21, 1961
- Label: Savoy (MG 12160)
- Concert Key: No key center
- Style: Swing (uptempo)
- Tenor Sax - Bill Barron
- Trumpet - Ted Curson
- Piano - Kenny Barron
- Bass - Jimmy Garrison
- Drums - Frankie Dunlop
What would a fox hunt be without a hunting horn? Bill wrote a quaisi hunting horn intro for trumpeter Ted Curson, which is notated in the parts. The horn call starts and ends the recording. The piece is not in any one key. Am11 is the first chord (concert) of the melody.
The current CD release, titled "Modern Windows Suite
" contains tracks from two albums, "The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron" and "Modern Windows." The latter includes Tone Colors. 
Bill Barron
Mar 27, 1927 – Sep 21, 1989
Philadelphia-born tenor saxophonist Bill Barron was also a gifted composer. His first record date was with Cecil Taylor in 1959. In November of that year he recorded Interpretation with drummer Philly Joe Jones on the Riverside label. Barron continued to perform and record with Jones through 1960. In 1961 he started recording as a leader for Savoy records and began his association with trumpeter Ted Curson which resulted in several more recordings. Barron also had a successful career as an educator in the NY area, directing a jazz workshop at the Children's Museum in Brooklyn, and teaching at City College of New York, before leaving the city to become the chairman of the music department at Wesleyan University. He also introduced his younger brother, pianist Kenny Barron, to the jazz recording world and featured him on most of his own recordings. Read more...