[Dixielandjazz] humor in music

[Texasjazzlover]

On the Titan Hot Seven album, "Without a Net" they play "Sunday" in a style
one would hear if they were playing it on a 78 wind-up Victrola.  They
introduce the sound affects and you "hear" the crack in the record
especially when it sticks and they repeat the last couple of notes over and
over until finally getting past that.  THEN the record starts to wind down
and they play notes that sound like records do when that happens.  That
impresses me that they can gradually slow down, play in a lower key and then
"get wound up" and increase the speed back to normal.  This was VERY funny
the FIRST time I saw it.  The recording is not as funny as the live
performance, however.

Rebecca Thompson
Flower Mound, TX

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[mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com]On Behalf Of Dan
Augustine
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 11:19 AM
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] RE: Wow on WING...; humor in music

 However (and here's the ticklish point), who has done this for dixieland?
I'm afraid that people wouldn't recognize intentionally bad dixieland as
being humorous--in fact, some might (gasp) like it (at least as much as they
like other 'good' dixieland).  So why is this?  I'm not talking about humor
in the band's introductions to their tunes, but humor in the music itself.
The Firehouse Five sometimes did humorous things with their music (like the
siren, or the duck-quacks), but i don't recall that they ever deliberately
played out of tune (or did other similarly wrong things) to be funny.  Lots
of bands (in fact, some of the best bands) use humor, but do any
deliberately play badly for a comic effect?

    Dan