[Dixielandjazz] Mound City Blue Blowers.

[Ron L'Herault]

While watching one of the Youtube clips of the BBs, I noticed that Red used
a megaphone and then a can like thing to make the "kazoo"  I did a quick
experiment and determined that one can stretch paper across the mouth of a
megaphone and get the kazoo affect quite nicely.  I wonder if the tissue
paper/comb combination was just used in front of a microphone or if it was
ever used at all.  Maybe Red created his own devices.

Ron L

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To: bhaesler at bigpond.net.au
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Mound City Blue Blowers.

In a message dated 9/20/2006 5:48:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bhaesler at bigpond.net.au writes:
Perhaps you should have identified these 3 CDs for Mike.
I would also like to know what they are.
Bill, of course I should have named the 3 MCBB CDs. I must have been in a 
hurry, or just assumed that a search on the Worlds Records site would have
turned 
them up - as I recall, there were only the three. However, here they are:
    1) Mound City Blue Blowers: Hot Comb & Tin Can (recordings from 1924 to 
1931)
            Vintage Music Productions 2005  VMP 0151
    2) Timeless Historical Presents Mound City Blue Blowers - 1935 &1936
            Timeless Records B.V.  1994    Timeless CBC 1-018 JAZZ
    3) Timeless Historical Presents Red McKensie  -  1935 - 1937
            Timeless Records B.V. 1994    Timeless CBC  1-019 JAZZ

    The Blue Blowers did operate through 1937 with the likes of Berigan, 
Hackett, Condon, et al as evidenced by these recordings and also according
to Rust.
    At any rate, it's been fun for me to reconstruct this music and to be 
able to play it now with folks like Randy Reinhart, Eddie Metz Jr, Paul
Hubbell 
(reeds) and Spencer Reed (guitar) who is able to play great solos and hum 
(scat) along with the solos (no kazoos allowed - yet). Maybe after 10
festival 
invitations. The great thing is, you can be the Blue Blowers - or in our
case "The 
New Mound City Blue Blowers" with anywhere from 3 men to 8, which helps to 
dispel the "you're too expensive" myth.
    Regards, Ed Metz
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