[Dixielandjazz] Dixieland Tuba Solos CD

[Gary Kiser]

Well, I'll be a leaky spit valve.  I think this is the first time I've 
ever made a 'bast of' list.  I am quite honored to be named amongst some 
heavyweights of the blow bass.  My ego runneth over.  I feel like I'm 
behind a podium holding a giant golden mouthpiece making an acceptance 
speech.

As I am normally a man of few words, I'll stop this blubber tout de suite.

Thank you, Gary

PS: If you compress the tunes to MP3, you'd get everything onto one CD.  
Alas, you'll need a player that reads MP3 format CDs (around $50).

PSS: Now I gotta go and find the tunes I don't have.

Gary Kiser
www.sacapulses.com
www.mojobrassband.com



Dan Augustine wrote:

> Folks--
>     By which i mean: those in the DJML (Dixieland Jazz Mailing List), 
> TubaEuph (Tuba/Euphonium mailing-list), and others who play or are 
> interested in tuba-music. (Y'all need to be aware of each other, by 
> the way.  See http://www.islandnet.com/~djml/ and 
> http://www.iteaonline.org/).
>     This is a strangely difficult message to write.  I mean, all i did 
> was copy to a CD some tuba solos from some dixieland-recordings i have 
> to give to some (mainly tuba-playing) friends of mine here in Austin.  
> I made a similar CD half a year ago of classical-music tuba-solos from 
> the last 60 years, and i also wanted to give them an idea of the 
> incredible richness of tuba-playing in dixieland (not all of jazz, 
> just dixieland), whatever i could put onto one CD.  I wanted to give 
> chronological examples starting in the 1920s through today. This 
> wasn't supposed to be the 'best' dixieland-tuba solos, just some good 
> examples chronologically over the years; i mean, all i have is my own 
> recordings and what i could find on the web (such as at 
> http://www.redhotjazz.com, a wonderful archive of jazz from the 
> 1920s-1940s).  Since nobody has all the dixieland-recordings in the 
> world, i don't think it's possible to come up with a list of the 
> 'best' solos in history (and what would that mean, anyway?).  In most 
> cases i had a lot of different solos by the same player that i had to 
> pick only one of, and it was a tough choice (and maybe not a choice 
> i'd make again or that you'd make).
>     After a couple months of listening to my recordings and making a 
> list of players and recordings, i started putting them onto a CD. 
> However, i was bitterly disappointed that i didn't have enough room 
> for all the songs i wanted to include.  What i finally did was to 
> include only the most recent recordings (back to the 1950s), so i had 
> to leave out all the good stuff from players of the 1920s through the 
> 1940s, guys like Joe Tarto, Cyrus St. Clair, Clinton Walker, Country 
> Washburne, and Phil Stephens.  Maybe i'll put them onto another CD 
> just by themselves.
>     I also had to leave out a host of good dixieland-tuba players as 
> well as wonderful jazz-tuba players, guys like Don Butterfield, Red 
> Calender, Marty Erickson, Dick Remington, Bill Carroll, Kirk Joseph, 
> Mark Vehrencamp, Gil Corella, Howard Johnson, Dave Bargeron, and 
> Michel Godard, among others.  Sigh.
>     One more comment: i made this CD for myself and a couple of my 
> friends, and it contains copyrighted materials, so i can't distribute 
> it to others.  So my list below is kind of a 'virtual' CD, made from 
> my own recordings. If you're interested in a CD like this, make one 
> yourself out of your own recordings, and i'm sure you'll include lots 
> of other players and solos than the ones i used.  Heck, only five 
> years ago i would have selected an entirely different list of players 
> and solos, so go ahead and roll your own, it's fun. The main 
> selection-criteria i used were that the players had to have been 
> playing for years in dixieland bands, had a body of good solos over a 
> period of years, and played in good bands with other good players. 
> (All my own peculiar ideas, see?)  Oh, and i'm not going to try to 
> answer questions like "Who's the best player?"  Roll your own.
>     OK, enough gab.  Here's what's on my CD:
>
>
>  1) George Bruns, "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"
>         Firehouse Five Plus Two, _Goes to Sea_ (1957)
>
>  2) Lowell Miller, "Whiffenpoof Song"
>         Dukes of Dixieland, _Volume 8: On Campus_ (1958)
>
>  3) Rich Matteson, "Avalon"
>         Dukes of Dixieland, _Louie and The Dukes_ (1960)
>
>  4) Singleton Palmer, "Washington and Lee Swing"
>         Singleton Palmer, _At the Opera House!_ (1962)
>
>  5) Eli Newberger, "The Mooche"
>         New Black Eagle Jazz Band, from a video (1975)
>
>  6) Mike Swanson, "Trog's Blues"
>         Professor Plum Jazz, _After Hours_ (1983)
>
>  7) Mike Walbridge, "Pretty Baby"
>         Original Salty Dogs Jazz Band, _Long, Deep and Wide_ (1989)
>
>  8) Sam Pilafian, "Buddy Bolden's Blues"
>         New York Trumpet Ensemble, _Trumpets in Stride_ (1990)
>
>  9) Dave Gannett, "Keepin' Out of Mischief"
>         Black Dogs Jazz Band, _Head Sessions_ (1991)
>
> 10) Dan Marcus, "Just a Little While to Stay"
>         10th Avenue Jazz Band, unknown recording (before 1995)
>
> 11) Pip Avent, "Tiger Rag"
>         Society Syncopators (Australia), _Revolutionary Blues_ (1996)
>
> 12) Red Lehr, "King Chanticleer"
>         Jazz Incredibles, _An Incredible Draw_ (1997)
>
> 13) Stan Freese, "Sweet Georgia Brown"
>         Dixieland Ramblers, _Do You Know What It Means..._ (1998)
>
> 14) Gary Kiser, "Skeleton in the Closet"
>         Sac a Pulses (France), _C'est Pas Ma Faute!_ (1999)
>
> 15) Westy Westenhofer, "Roll on Mississippi, Roll On"
>         Reynolds Brothers Rhythm Rascals, _Zasu Records No. 5_ (1999)
>
> 16) Matt Perrine, "Isle of Orleans"
>         Tim Laughlin, _Isle of Orleans_ (2003)
>
>     That's it; i'm outa here.
>
>     Dan