[Dixielandjazz] Candy Lips

[Mattias Hallin]

13 okt 2007 kl. 17.06 skrev dwlit at cpcug.org:
> My sheet in "Dixieland Fake Book Vol. 2" uses the sheet music version,
> incorporates Williams' intro, ending, and the 8 bar prelude to the  
> verse.

Interestingly enough, the intro, ending and prelude to the verse, as  
well the general structure and quite a few voicings of the Clarence  
Williams' Jazz Kings version are all taken pretty much straight from  
a contemporary 10-piece stock arrangement. I forget who the arranger  
and publisher were (I don't have access to the arrangement any  
longer), but we used to play this stock with the Southern Syncopaters  
from Malmö, Sweden (I dare say they're still playing it, but as I  
haven't been in the band since I moved away 11 years ago, I don't  
know this for sure), and immediately we took it up we realised that  
in all likelihood the Williams' recording was pretty much a straight  
adaptation for a smaller instrumentation of this stock arrangement.

As a matter of fact, a few similar instances (of which I no longer  
recall any details, as its getting on for 15 years or more ago) with  
1920's stocks has made me suspect that rather more "hot" recordings  
of the time than the romanticising of later generations would allow  
for were based on such material. And why not? In my opinion at least,  
it is the result that counts: if it sounds good, it is good, and how  
you got there matters rather less...

All the best,

/Mattias

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Mattias Hallin · Brussels · Belgium · <cmhallin at algonet.se>

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