[Dixielandjazz] Making Runs

[D and R Hardie]

Dear Norrie,
It seems your recording predates the Chris Tyle version I mentioned 
earlier. It seems a mystery who first used the name and why, because 
I'm sure Ingemar is correct in saying it isn't in the Bolden 
literature, and Bunk said he didn't have a name for it, just something 
Buddy made up. Ingemar had some ideas about it being based on a Mexican 
march
regards
  Dan Hardie

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~darnhard/EarlyJazz.html

On Wednesday, March 17, 2004, at 10:17  AM, Norrie Thomson wrote:

> I have a recording of 'Making Runs' made in 1970 by an excellent UK New
> Orleans revival band called the 'New Iberia Stompers'.  The trumpet 
> player
> on this recording is the excellent Tony O'Sullivan. Some of you on the 
> list
> may have heard this recording.  The record details are 77 Records,
> 77SEU12/40
>
> Norrie
>
> Norrie Thomson
> Edinburgh
> Scotland
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D and R Hardie" <darnhard at ozemail.com.au>
> To: "Bill Haesler" <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
> Cc: "dixieland jazz mail list" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>; 
> "Ashley
> Keating" <shakers at netstra.com.au>; "Phil O'Rourke" 
> <philor at webone.com.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Making Runs
>
>
>> Dear Bill,
>>                  Thanks to your own generosity I first  encountered 
>> this
>>   Bolden tune whistled by Bunk in the interview you mention.  
>> (American
>> Music 10" LP 64). He said he didn't know its name. Humphrey Lyttleton
>> recorded it as Bunk Remembers on his Calligraph LP.  It also appeared
>> played by  Wynton Marsalis in the Bolden segment of Ken Burns TV
>> documentary and an excerpt from a version by Chris Tyle's  Silver Leaf
>> Jazz Band was also played on the sound track.  Hal Smith advised that
>> the excerpt was from a Stomp Off recording where it was called Makin
>> Runs. To the best of my knowledge that was the first time it appeared
>> with that title. I believe this was an allusion to Bunk's interview
>> where he said Bolden's Band  didn't play solos but called them runs.
>>   I have heard Ashley's recording and he kindly supplied the chords. 
>> You
>> may already have acquired recent The Gota River Jazzmen CD "I Thought 
>> I
>> heard Buddy Bolden Play"on which they also play the piece under the
>> title Makin Runs. Ingemar Wagerman did the research for that and he 
>> has
>> offered me a copy of the lead sheet.
>>
>> thanks again
>> Dan Hardie
>> On Tuesday, March 16, 2004, at 08:25  PM, Bill Haesler wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Dan,
>>> Phil O'Rourke and Glen Page have advised me that "Making Runs" was a
>>> Buddy
>>> Bolden tune and whistled to Bill Russell by Bunk.
>>> Phil also advised that the Melbourne (Australia) band The Louisiana
>>> Shakers
>>> (run by me mate Ashley Keating) recorded it.
>>> Glen thinks Doc Evans also recorded it.
>>> Aha! All I needed was a reminder.
>>> 8>)
>>> OK then. The Bunk whistling version was on American Music 10" LP 643
>>> and I
>>> have it on LP (Dan 4020). It was recorded in New Orleans on 13 June
>>> 1942 and
>>> is described in 'Bill Russell's American Music' on page 1. (Jazzology
>>> Press
>>> 1993). It was untitled, but referred to a "make up" tune. Just 
>>> "making
>>> runs"
>>> as Bunk says.
>>> Bunk recorded it again 4 times on 7 May 1943 in San Francisco as part
>>> of a
>>> Bolden medley of "Pallet On The Floor". This is also on the AM and 
>>> Dan
>>> LPs.
>>> The Louisiana Shakers CD is titled 'Making Runs' and their version of
>>> the
>>> tune opens the CD and is 6 min 33 sec long. I have this too, but
>>> forgot.
>>> (Sorry Ashley!)
>>> I can't find a Doc Evans' version using this title.
>>> Very kind regards,
>>> Bill.
>>>
>>>
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