[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 1, Issue 451

[Charlie Hooks]

on 1/21/03 7:26 PM, Bill Gunter at jazzboard at hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> Dan Spink writes:
> 
>> I couldn't make Country & Western sound Dixie,
>> however. I think this is what we in the DJML world have come to love about
>> so
>> called traditional jazz songs.
> 
> I would imagine this would be pretty hard, not that it couldn't be done.
> It's just that Country/Western music tends to accent beats 1 and 3 while hot
> jazz/Dixie stresses 2 and 4.

to which Charlie says:

    I could, and it wouldn't be hard at all.  Think: "San Antonio Rose" as a
classic C&W that is easily dixiefyable (is that a word?  It should be.). All
you need is the properly phrased lead line (think Wild Bill Davison--he
could dixify damn near anything, easily SAR) PLUS a trombone player who
knows his job.  Like Beebe, for instance.  Put Billy Kyle on piano and you
wouldn't even need Arvell on bass, although he would certainly help.

    Come to think of it, just imagine Louis' band playing ANY tune--Trummy
and Louis, Barrett and Arvell and Billy, and take your choice of clarinet
players--those guys could take "Pomp and Circumstance" and swing the hell of
it--much less "Country Roads."  And any audience would love it, even the C&W
audience, although (duh...) they wouldn't know why.

cheerfully submitted,
charliehooks at earthlink.net