[Dixielandjazz] My Brain Hurts!

Stan Brager sbrager at socal.rr.com
Fri May 2 14:17:47 PDT 2003


There was a tune that Woody Herman and others did in the 50's called "Jump
In The Line". Woody sang the lyrics whose first 2 lines were:

Jump in the line
Rock your body in tempo.

Does this help?

Stan
Stan Brager
Trombonist-in-Training
----- Original Message -----
From: <KenASlater at aol.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>; <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 10:11 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] My Brain Hurts!


> Hi Chaps.
>
> Can anyone help me with any details of a tune I last heard in the 80's
played
> by a semi-pro Dixieland band in the North West of England and haven't
heard
> since. A few notes from it have been drifting through my mind recently and
> I'd like to lay the ghost and find a recording.
>
> The title is 'Jumping the Line'. As I recall the clarinet led in with the
> melody and it had the sort of sound I usually think of as a Bechet/De
Paris
> thing - the same sort of swing as 'The Onions' and 'The Martinique',
>
> Any ideas, or would lobotomy be a more effective way of achieving closure?
>
> Regards
>
> Ken
>
>
>





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