Woody Birch

Tommy Potter’s Hard Funk may be the title of what continues to be, in a few periods, an exceptionally hard-to-find album of bebop featuring bassist Tommy Potter leading a little combo. The pianist for the time can be Freddie Redd, an expatriate American surviving in Sweden. All of those other players for the program had been from that nation and Finland. One of these was pretending to be always a tree, for grounds that has under no circumstances been set up. Woody Birch may be the credit provided for one from the tenor saxophonists upon this record, a pseudonym in the grand custom of Muddy Waters carrying out as Dirty Streams or Buddy Man obtaining a credit as Friendly Chap. Whether Bjorksten, just like the earlier mentioned bluesmen, transformed his name in order to avoid agreement disputes is unfamiliar; it seems improbable taking into consideration the man’s docile history as the child of the piano teacher. From your ’50s on, the reedman who grow right into a Woody Birch was enthusiastic about the great jazz style, pulling from a palate of Lee Konitz, Zoot Sims, and Stan Getz impressions when it had been time for any single. Gunnar Bjorksten started leading a septet under his actual name in the 1st half from the ’50s. During his profession he offers performed on clarinet, alto, and tenor saxophone and flute; beneath the shade from the Birch nom-de-sax he offers only performed tenor.