[Dixielandjazz] Mercy Mercy Mercy OKOM?

[Bill Gunter]

In the Cell Block 7 we play a rendition of Amazing Grace which begins with a 
Double Bell Euphonium trio and no other instruments in 3/4 time. The tempo 
is slow and deliberate. After the last notes of the first chorus die out the 
banjo player plays a two bar duple time pattern and then the entire band 
swings into a series of chorus and in the final bars of the out chorus there 
is an abrupt stop in the rhythm and the tunes ends with the same motif as 
the opening double bell chorus in 3/4 time.

Tasteless? I dunno . . . sounds ok to me.

Bill "What the hell do I know, I play the washboard" Gunter
jazzboard at hotmail.com


>From: "Chris Calabrese" <lists at jazzpiano.com>
>To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Mercy Mercy Mercy OKOM?
>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 04:24:50 -0700
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dennis Mowatt"
> > If there is one thing I hate it is the playing of the first chorus in 
>3/4,
> > then "swinging it". To me that is the dregs of tastelessness. To play, 
>for
> > example, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", take a leaf from the book of the
> > ODJB and play it properly, in 3/4, all the way through!
>
>That's interesting, because for me the waltzes themselves are the dregs of
>tastelessness. To play one chorus 3/4 then swing the rest of it is to show
>those waltzes that you have control over their pitiful little existence. 
>All
>with the exception of  "Jitterbug" of course.
>
>~ Chris
>
>
>
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