[Dixielandjazz] RE: What did L. Armstrong play?

[David W. Littlefield]

Who needs a drummer--Turk Murphy made many fine OKOM records sans drummer,
and the performance I saw live didn't have a drummer, just occasional
washboard played by Turk, and Chinese tom by the banjo player. 

Some of the 20s classic jazz was 2-beat, and to me didn't "swing", but so
what, it still was jazz!! 

--Sheik

At 08:30 PM 2/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Ah, and there is the rub.  If it is metronomic two beat, is it really
>good OKOM?  Even two beat should swing, if the drummer is subtle enough
>and skilled enough with the placement of the beats.
>Ron
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of David W.
>Littlefield
>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 5:34 PM
>To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] RE: What did L. Armstrong play?
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>At 02:20 PM 2/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>OKOM should swing if it is done right, IMHO.
>>Ron L
>
>What do you mean by "swing"? Lots of OKOM even narrowly defined is
>2-beat...
>
>--Sheik
>
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