Time Out Ten
Feelin' No Pain
For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.
We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.
Adrian Rollini
This year, 2024, Retrospective Records have released a new compilation album of Adrian Rollini's recordings Swing Low. On the album he plays his wide range of instruments from bass saxophone to goofus to hot fointain pen with a variety of different groups from between 1927 and 1938.
One of these tracks is Feelin' No Pain, our Time Out Ten selection this month. Here Adrian Rollini is playing with Red Nichols and his Five Pennies in 1927. The track does not appear to be played widely these days, but it is worth hearing. It is quite short, so there is time to play it a couple of times in our ten minutes break.
This version of Feelin' No Pain was recorded in 1927 with Red Nichols (cornet); Miff Mole (trombone);, Pee Wee Russell (clarinet); Lennie Hayton (piano), Dick McDonough (guitar), Adrian Rollini (bass sax and goofus) and Vic Berton (drums). The tune must have been particularly popular at the time as there are a number of other recordings with different line-ups from that same year. On this recording Pee Wee Russell's clarinet stands out but Adrian Rollini's bass sax solo does too, as is Miff Mole's trombone played against Adrian Rollini's goofus, and Red Nichols brings in a short, clean solo showing the influence Bix Beiderbecke had on his playing.
09.2024