[Dixielandjazz] Washboards as Melody Instruments

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Dass why de calls it Jass folks, ya gotta listen to da otha fellas and 
be creative enough to fit something cool into the gaps so's it all 
comes ouit together souindin like jass.

Ya can';t write that kinda stuff on charts so somebody with a PHD can 
unnerstan it man cause if you could it wuddn't be jass no mo.   Jass is 
whut you heah and whut you plays not whut sujmbody else tellyou yuou 
oughtta play.  Either you can or you can't like is you is or is you 
ain't my baby?  deah ain't no room for mr in-between.


Ya'll gotta read that book or swee the movie called "White Boys Can't 
Jump" to understand why MOST White guys dixieland bands just don't 
SWING.  De ain't got no Soul to swing wit man.


Cheers,

Tom "Shuckin and a Jivein" "Wimpin an a Pimpin" Wiggins



-----Original Message-----
From: Steve barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:39:11 -0400
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Washboards as Melody Instruments

   "Mike C." <mike at michaelcryer.com>

> I'd like to know if anybody has every heard a washboard as a melody
> instrument or if there are any washboard melodies. To me it would seem
> totally logical.

"Sure Mike, "Rub a Dub Dub, Three Men In A Tub." ;-) VBG.

> In some countries, rhythm instruments are melody
> instruments, but that concept doesn't seem to have caught on very well
> here in the states.

I don't know of any washboarders who play melody, but  many drummers 
play
melody, including list mate John Petters in the UK.

Others, perhaps better known include Max Roach who always has his kit in
tune and plays melody drums. So too does Joe Morello who mixes large 
amounts
of humor into his melodic line on drums.

Those are just a couple. There are many more. Perhaps more so on the 
modern
or straight ahead jazz scene then amongst OKOM drummers in many of 
today's
bands. Like the washboarders, many just play unaccented, non melodic, 
time.
That's OK if you like that sort of thing, but give me Wettling (who also
played melody drums) Petters, or Dodds etc., who know/knew how to drive 
the
band as well as play melodic fills and solos.

And other rhythm instruments do play melody. E.G. Barbone Street's 
guitarist
often plays like a fourth horn inserting single string melodic 
counterpoint
along with the front line during the ensemble.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone



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