[Dixielandjazz] Candy Lips

[dwlit at cpcug.org]

A lot more attention needs to be given the place of stock charts in the
history of 20s-30s jazz. They reflected and codified the music styles of
the era, and proved to my satisfaction that jazz can be written and
arranged.

Their study is much easier today because the charts are increasingly
available, eg. from Jim Jones' YesterTunes.com

--Sheik

>
> 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.

Matthias skrev:
>
> 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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