[Dixielandjazz] Indian Sagua

[Dick Baker]

Bruce Strangeland wrote,

I have two more tunes from this fakebook that I'm trying to identify.
>I've uploaded PDF files for them:
>
>"Indian Sagua" <http://www.bestangeland.com/music/IndianSagua.pdf>
>and   "In The Gutter" <http://www.bestangeland.com/music/InTheGutter.pdf>

In his liner notes for Stomp Off LP 1031, a Hall Brothers Jazz Band 
recording from 1981, William Schaefer wrote,

         "'Indian Sagua' is a vaudeville-revue novelty, exotica from New 
Orleans's Thomas S. Allen, a red-faced comedy specialist ('Big Chief Battle 
Ax' is another Allen work).  The number features a spectacular skyrocketing 
introduction and cascade breaks much-plagiarized in 1920s New Orleans--see 
Brownlee's Orchestra's 'Peculiar' (1925) or the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot 
Eight's 'Damp Weather' (1929)."


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