[Dixielandjazz] Yama Yama Man

[JazzAdvocate]

I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment on Kinch and Turk but I do concur
with George on Howard Miyata who brought the house down at the Eralyjas 2003
Fall Jazz Festival in Strongsville, Ohio last September.  I liked Howard's
rendition very much and said so in an article I wrote for a local Dayton
paper, which is posted (along with some pictures) on our website at:
http://www.jazzadvocate.com/special_picture_page.htm.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Thurmond" <gmthur at delrio.com>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:19 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Yama Yama Man


>         I'm the "someone" who posted that "Yama Yama Man" is an old New
> Orleans lullabye - an assertion somewhat disputed by Mike No. 1 (Durham).
> Then Mike No. 2 (Rev. Logsdon) says Don Kinch and the Murphy band's
> rendition tops Howard Miyata and the High Sierra's version.  Let me answer
> each Mike in turn.
>
>         Kinch and Turk's recording in the Music for Losers album (Verve
> 1013) is beautiful, and played as intended - slowly and, yes, sweetly.
But
> no lyrics are sung.  Miyata and High Sierra play it also in the same
meter,
> but Miyata's showmanship comes through on the lyrics, and that what, I
> repeat, brings down the house.
>
>         The album notes to Turk's Verve album refer to the song as "a New
> Orleans lullabye (sic), written by Carl Hoschna and Collin Davis around
> World War I".  The lyrics are scary, and get the kids to bed hiding under
> the covers where they are safe from YYMan, a sort of New Orleans sandman.
>
> George (standing on good authority) Thurmond
>
>
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