I searched for the video and found him playing Georgia On My Mind here, but not sure if this is the video you’re talking about:
Other than a chromatic, I can’t tell. This one doesn’t appear to be a CBH, but perhaps someone else can take a look and chime in.
Last Edited by Todd Parrott on Oct 05, 2018 9:56 PM
Based on my impression (not a very solid empirical foundation!) that Norton B prefered 2nd position pretty much exclusively when he played, I´d say that this is a chromatic in Bb.
Phil Jackson (Norton Buffalo) was my mentor and one of my initial instructor in the Mississippi Saxophone. When I was attempting to learn my basic chops as a thirteen year old, he must been all of 20 years old hanging out in SF back in the late sixties. A little Italian guy from Long Island who can not remember his names also taught me how to Jam hard. Now close to 50 years later, I'm still at it. In my 60's teaching other young people occasionally. I play in a couple of bands in the St Pete FL area, which has a fantastic user friendly group of fellow musicians, lots of bars and restaurants and event places to play due t our heavy tourism business at the beaches. Well I best shut up. I'm watching the outer bands of Hurricane Michael from my front window go over my house at this typing.
OOPS! When i played with hime back in early 70's. He used Golden Melody's Marine Bands.. He taught me the basics of second position, and how to bend a note. He is the one who taught me. You got it, or ya don't.
Last Edited by Chugalug on Oct 10, 2018 8:49 AM
Norton was a pure and decent spirit. Stories abound like the one in which he headlined a small outdoor festival in CA....it rained a lot....some folk's cars were stuck in the mud. He came around in his jeep like vehicle and helped pull people out.
Many do not know how fantastic his personal project with his woman partner was (near the end of his life). It wasn't a blues one, but was a pure MUSICAL one. ---------- The Iceman
Norton Buffalo's "Desert Horizons" was the first non Blues harmonica I ever heard and it was a complete eye opener to me. He was a brilliant player and human being
