[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland tunes

[Brian Harvey]

And extract from the recent exchange on this subject ran like this..........

Hello Don, I am referring to melodies and not what I term 'scribble'. Brian

Don replied.....I still don't know what you are saying..............I guess
I'm just dense......

No he's not dense. Just missing the point that I was trying to make. To
continue....

Frequently used tunes in Dixieland, swing and 'Straight Ahead' jazz like -
Honeysuckle rose, Blue turning grey over you, Dardanella, Undecided,
Indiana, Sleepy time down south, Maple leaf rag, Put on your old grey
bonnet, On the sunny side of the street and many old musical (Vaudeville)
songs have clearly discernable melodies and (as far as I can tell)
worthwhile chord sequences.
These are excellent to improvise on and become therefore part of the OKOM
repertoire.
Many hip hop and other modern genre songs have no discernable melodies
comparable to the popular music 'classics' and no worthwhile chord
sequences. They are therefore to my mind musical 'scribble' compared to the
'classical' music of the general catalogue of classic popular songs.
I appreciate that my explanation may lack erudition but hope that more
musically literate listmembers will elaborate.
One that could is Ed Metz whose band The Bob Crosby Bobcats includes on a
brilliant recent CD titles like - Coquette, Nice work if you can get it, In
the shade of the old apple tree, When my dreamboat comes home and Zes
Confrey's wonderful Stumbling.
Brian Harvey