[Dixielandjazz] Dan Barrett was Kid Ory was Frank Rosolino etc.

[Steve Barbone]

paul.edgerton at gmail.com wrote, commenting on:

>> How about Dan Barrett?

>Paul answered;
>Is Dan Barret black? That's funny, he never mentioned it to me!

One never knows. Here's what happened when a fan asked Condon;

Fan:    "Is Edmond Hall Black?

Condon: "I dunno, I never asked him."

What is funny about that comment on YouTube by a "trombone player" that the
trombone seemed to be a white instrument because of a lack of black players?

Seems to me the man who defined jazz trombone in the beginning was Kid Ory.
Then later, the man who defined jazz bop trombone was J.J. Johnson. To say
nothing about all the black players that list mates added.

Better keep the list handy because you may need one. If you get hung up on
J.J. you might get shot. Note this book review (snip) from 1992: <grin>

". . . but he does great riffs on it. In FIXIN' TO DIE (Bantam, $20 by Jerry
Oster)), Detective Joe Cullen of Internal Affairs gets the dirty job of
investigating the shooting of two cops who were transporting a prisoner with
inside information about an air-cargo heist at Kennedy International . . ."

"Always gabby but prolix here to a fault, Mr. Oster bogs down his story in
lists, names, mantras, chants, rants and Homeric epithets that too often
sound like white-guy rap. Jamming a gun to a man's head and demanding that
he name some black trombone players (Tyree Glenn, Curtis Fuller, Grachan
Moncur 3d, J. J. Johnson . . . J. J. Johnson . . . J. J. Johnson -- Blam!)
is nice. . ." 

Cheers ,
Steve Barbone