[Dixielandjazz] "Large" Dixieland bands . . .was RE: Jammin for Norman Burbank

[tduncan]

 Steve wrote, in part . . . 

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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jammin for Norman Burbank

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A blasting "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" closed our the afternoon
with each instrument taking a 2 chorus solo. That one lasted a while. <grin>

An 11 piece Dixieland Band, who'd have thought that? ::end snip::

My introduction to live jazz occurred in the early '50's when a friend's
father took us to Public Hall in Cleveland for a concert featuring a
reconstructed Carnegie Hall Goodman band (15 pcs?) with Krupa, Stacy, Elman,
Griffin et al AND Louis Armstrong and the All Stars with Edmond Hall (I
think?), Trummy Young, Arvell Shaw, Velma Middleton, et al. If the concert
program wasn't enough to get a kid and aspiring clarinetist hooked on jazz,
the finale did it for sure.

They made a big "Dixieland" band out of both groups arrayed across the big
stage (now over 20 pieces) and romped through many, many choruses of
"Saints". That one also lasted a while . . . Over fifty years for me and
still vivid in my memory and going strong.

Regards,

Tom Duncan
Doctor Dubious and the Agnostics
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