Cy Touff
Cyril James Touff (March 4, 1927, Chicago – January 24, 2003, Evanston, Illinois) was a jazz bass trumpeter. He was one of the few jazz musicians known as a bass trumpeter. He was also associated with West coast jazz even though he spent most of his life in Chicago.
He started on piano at age 6 and went on to play xylophone and saxophone before settling on trumpet. He served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946 and in the military he played trombone. After the war he switched to bass trumpet and worked with Woody Herman and Sandy Mosse among others. He joined Herman's band in 1953 and in 1954-55 played with a reduced version of the band that also included Richie Kamuca. He and Mosse co-led an octet called Pieces of Eight late in the 1950s into the next decade.
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Podcasts:
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by Graham Coxon
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by Kronos
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by Youth Group
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by Kowalski
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by Jay Reatard
See Saw
by: Graham CoxonSee saw - up and down - around and round we go
Too late - we're out on the brink
Our love's in the sink - washed up
And when I'm walking down a rainy street
I think I hear you calling out to me
But it's just an echo I've arranged to meet
Free fall - we're out of control -
We never will know what went wrong
Too bad - what we had for a while
Has gone out of style this year
Your friends told me you moved out of town
I got your address and I wrote it down
I used the pen that you bought for my birthday
And every stroke, you know, reminded me of you
I realize that we'll never be together again
Wait a while - reclaim your loss
But it costs alot - you'll learn
Take five - it heals in time
You'll feel just fine - they say
But I feel it
See saw - in a way I'm glad
Though I still feel sad about you
I know it's too late for changing minds
And I'm still not sure I want to change mine
It's just a tiny part that says that this ain't right
See saw - up and down - around and round
They say it heals in time - they say you'll feel just
fine
In a way I'm glad -
Though I still feel sad about losing you