[Dixielandjazz] King Oliver

[Mattias Hallin]

26 maj 2008 kl. 20.00 Ken Mathieson wrote:
> It has occurred to me that Oliver has never had his due recognition  
> as an influential figure in the development of jazz arranging. He  
> may not have actually written the charts (I wonder who did?), but  
> I'm pretty sure he had a lot of input in their creation.


I am certainly not an expert on Oliver, but as for the arrangements  
used by the Dixie Syncopaters, I'm inclined to think they might have  
been stocks. When I played with the Southern Syncopaters a number of  
years ago, we had two stocks in our book, of Wa Wa wa and Too Bad,  
which were that close to the Oliver recordings to make me believe  
they were what was used by the Dixie Syncopaters, of course with the  
usual adaptions for solos and other individual or band preferences.

I no longer have them to hand to check, nor do I remember, who wrote  
those stocks, but I think it might have been someone like Elmer  
Schoebel or Joe Jordan. Can't swear to it, of course, but I know if  
not from those then from similar arrangements that we played that  
they were active writing "hot" (as opposed to straight dance or  
sweet) stocks during the mid 1920's.

My tuppence'orth, for what it might be worth...

All the best,

/Mattias

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

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