[Dixielandjazz] Re: New Tunes for OKOM

[Richard Broadie]

Geez, Charlie.  I didn't realize you were from down home!

I met Hubert one time in my life and in a very "downhome" situation - a
country club tennis court in the Palm Springs area.  How Down Home can one
get???  (I should point out that his racquet did have a soulful swing!)  All 
he
wanted to talk about was his son Ronnie.  Talk about a doting father.

Love to play jazz waltzes and did both Jitterbug and Gravy on gig last
night.  Don't think we'd played them for many months but it just worked out
that way.  Can hardly wait to try out Young Lovers on next gig.  Of course
Green Sleeves and Favorite Things have been frequently well swung in 3 as
well as the tunes you mentioned.

Dick

>
> Then try my favorite hustle: a superslow downhome black blues tempo, but
> separated into triplets on every beat, making a 9/8, but actually playing
> eighths and sixteenths. Dooba dooba dooba do daht daht like Hubert Lawes,
> the great black flutist back in the seventies who recorded "Come, Ye
> Disconsolate"...ooh, man!  Ain't nothin' more total downhome feel than on
> that cut!  It's pure Southern black church, and there ain't nothin'
> homey-er than that.  You might have to explain briefly to white audiences
> where you're coming from initially, but they"ll hear it soon enough.  It's
> irresistible. Blacks need no explanation. They'uz born hearin' it!
>
> Time to crash: fun to write, but too much of The Creature, as me Irish
> ancestors accurately described him.  But I have re-read and find nothing
> reprehensible.
>
> Charlie
>
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