[Dixielandjazz] Yma Sumac

[Stephen G Barbone]

David Richoux tubaman at tubatoast,com wrote (polite snip)

 >Yma Sumac had a real "thing" going on with the young wannabe  
hipsters in the >San Francisco area - I had many requests for her  
songs during my radio show in >the last 10 years.

She was immensely popular in NYC during the late 1950s-60s. It was a  
time of jazz musical exploration  there. In those years, middle  
eastern/far eastern music music was also being explored along with her  
Peruvian warbles. For example, clarinetist Tony Scott, looking to be  
different from Goodman and Buddy DeFranco, played and recorded a lot  
of middle eastern styled music. (before he went avant garde)

My wife, reminded me of that a year or two ago when I was playing a  
Tony Scott CD re-issue from the late 50s which was mostly his  
experimental middle eastern jazz. She heard it and said, "Remember  
those years in NYC with all that "new" jazz?" Like Yma's obit, it  
brought back memories of a wonderful era.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband