[Dixielandjazz] Harlem Jazz? was Cartoon music of the BratislavaHot Serenaders

[Robert S. Ringwald]

 Steve Barbone wrote:

 > "Robert S. Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
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>> Hey Bill,
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>> Please don't call it Cartoon Music.  It is great, Hot Harlem Jazz.
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> Hi Bob:
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> Do you mean Haarlem as in The Netherlands?


Of course not.


> I can't recall any bands in
> Harlem NYC playing as Mickey Mouse as that.



1.  I don't think you were in Harlem in the 20s.

2.  It was not at all mickey mouse.  It is something that the Night hawks 
would play as really Hot jazz.


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> Seriously, though, the Bratislave musicians are excellent. The band is 
> well
> arranged. BUT, Is it jazz?
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> Guys like Eddie Condon would have said no and reminded us that jazz in the
> 1920s/30s was popularly associated with Whiteman, Gershwin and Irving
> Berlin. and that the Bratislava Band was playing popular music.



As I said, they were playing the Hot Harlem Jazz of the late 20s and early 
30s.


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> Perhaps that kind of music in the "jazz age", as compared to the real jazz
> of the originators, (Oliver, Bolden, Armstrong, Bechet et al) is more like
> what Kenny G and his clones play today, compared to the real jazz of this
> and/or any other era?
>



Sorry Steve, I have to respectfully say that you are all wet.

--Bob Ringwald



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