[Dixielandjazz] Novelty Effect Dixieland - was Wilton Crowley

[tcashwigg at aol.com]

Tis no doubt the beginning of the separation of Entertainers from 
musicians and launched most entertainers into super stars while 
musicians grumbled in their beer and pissed and moaned about those no 
talented chick singers and comedy schleps pretending to play 
instruments  etc. etc.  enter the age of the Washboadist and Kazoo 
players, gut bucket bass, jugs and I don't know what all.


Serious music has never been the same, and the entertainers all still 
make more money than most bands full of excellent competent trained 
musicians.    Get over it guys Nobody in John Q. Public cares how 
damned good you are or who you studied under.  They want to be 
entertained and if you happen to be pretty good on an instrument too 
whooopde dooo  all the better, but if you expect one out of 100 of them 
to respect you and recognize that you played a flatted fifth then you 
are going to wait a hell of a long time.  Just shut up and play, shake 
your booty a bit, throw a bead or two flirt with the ladies and they 
will go home and give it up to their men and the men will bring  them 
back again and again and pay the cover charge to pay your salary so 
they can get laid again.   Cheaper than renting a hooker and keeps the 
little woman happy too, especially the one with the backstage pass :))  
You might even get lucky and the one that gets the beads is the same 
one with the backstage pass. :))

Or have you guys all forgotten what this music was and still is all 
about,  having a good time and feeling good while making other people 
feel good.   It ain't got much to do with playin' the  damned notes 
exactly like the are written on the paper to please the litteratti  or 
art critic in the audience.   He and the two people who read his column 
are the only ones who really care and they have long forgotten what the 
hell it is they really care about anyway, the two things they no longer 
care about is getting laid or having a good time.  :))   Don't even ask 
why:))

Cheers,

Rev Tom Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Sent: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:34:40 -0500
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Novelty Effect Dixieland - was Wilton Crowley

   on 1/5/06 3:00 PM, dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com at
dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com wrote:

> "Tom Duncan" <tduncan at bellatlantic.net>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:54 AM
> Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz]Wilton Crawley . . . Was . . . Big Time 
Woman
>
> Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but a check of the
> invaluable www.redhotjazz.com (or use of the song index feature for
> RedHotJazz developed by DJML's Craig Johnson .. .
> http://mainely-jazz.com/rhsongs/songframes.html)
> has a 1930 recording by Wilton Crawley & His Orchestra to hear the 
lyric
> and tune.

> Crawley was a new name to me and his clarinet on this cut is 
excessive,
> IMHO, in its bent notes and vocal effects. RedHotJazz opines that, 
"His
> style of playing was quite comical and a little heavy on the novelty
> effects."  Not that anyone on the list was hearing live performances 
90
> years ago, but could this be the New Orleans style preceding those 
that we
> have heard on recordings? Or, could similar examples be found in 
other early
> clarinetists? Or, is it "novelty" clarinet?

Hi Tom & List mates:

Lest we forget Larry Shields, the rest of the ODJB and "Livery Stable
Blues."

Comical, heavy on novelty, etc., etc., etc. Meant, so most serious 
students
of jazz believe, to be hokey.

Yet now, we (the new jazz literati) revere it for the wrong reasons, as
"artistic".

Paul Whiteman circa 1924, Aeolian Hall, played "Livery Stable" complete 
with
"novelty effects" for 1920's "Jazz Literati". He meant it as a joke to 
show
how hokey and primitive jazz used to be. But he was absolutely astounded
that it got a huge positive ovation as an artistic achievement.

One never knows, do one. (As Fats Waller used to say) :-) VBG

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


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