[Dixielandjazz] "Star Dust"

[Hal Vickery]

I knew about the tempo.  In fact Red Hot Jazz has Carmichaels original recording and it's played at a pretty good clip.

As for the Bix influence, I think I suspected that before I'd heard stories that it was true.  I can especially see the verse as being Bix-influenced.

Hal Vickery

> From: civanj at roadrunner.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:40:10 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] "Star Dust"
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> To: hvickery_80 at msn.com
> 
> In a chat with Marty Grosz after one of his concerts, Marty told
> me that Starduest (which used to be played much faster than it
> currently is) was based on some (practice?) licks played by
> Bix Beiderbecke.  
> My memory of the exact details of the above are dim, but to me 
> the interesting parts are
> 1. Bix's influence
> 2. The tempo
> 
> Craig Johnson