[Dixielandjazz] Authentic 1920s gangster music...or not?

[Marek Boym]

Hello, David,
Neve mind the Tin Pan Alley detritus, but jazz bands of the twenties
played a lot of numbers that seem to have disappeared.  How many times
have you heard "Feeling no Pain," or "Tat's no Bargain?"  Yet in the
twenties they were recorded many times.  I heard them played a few
years ago in Breda - as part of a Red Nichols tribute.  But other than
that?  And how about "Freshman Hop?"  Judgin by the severa
performances by Jack Pettis - an excellent song!

While I know that many OKOMers want the umpteenth version of Royal
Garden Blues or That's a Plenty, I really get tired of listening to
them again and again ... and again!  They are so overplayed that very
few musicians can say anything original while playing them (perhaps
the late Kenny Davern, or, of those playing now, Bob Wilber, but who
else?).
Cheers

On 16/05/07, David Dustin <postmaster at fountainsquareramblers.org> wrote:
> Marhaba, Sheikh.  Of course my reference to ³Tin Pan Alley detritus from the
> 1920s² was not a pejorative characterization of all 1920s music.  The 1920s
> were the Jazz Age and produced an unbelievably rich lode of OKOM and
> American Songbook standards, Gershwin, Porter, countless others.  ³Detritus²
> was meant to characterize obscurantist song selections that no one has heard
> of and which were justly relegated to the bottom shelf of musical history. I
> understand and respect the aims of your current 1920s songbook project, but
> like others who have weighed in on this issue, I see little entertainment
> value in performances of E-list and F-list OKOM, however much it meets the
> strict standards of authenticity upheld by the individual who took issue
> with Bob Ringwald.
>
> David Dustin
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