[Dixielandjazz] Steve Brown - and Bass Ale Blues

[David M Richoux]

On the only early version of Bass Ale Blues I have, the tuba (not  
string bass)  break is credited to Joe Tarto (The Titian of the  
Tuba) .  It is on a double LP release with the Tennessee Tooters, The  
Hottentots (Red Nichols and Friends) and Memphis 5, and on a special  
Joe Tarto tribute album.

As for Bass Ale being in the 1920s USA (during Prohibition) I can't  
find anything useful - my usual beer experts fail me on this one!  
Maybe it was brought in from Canada?

Dave Richoux

On Nov 4, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Marek Boym wrote:

> Speaking of unearthing nice music - how about Bass Ale Blues by the
> Original Memphis 5, with a brass bass break by Miff Mole?
> Brings us back to the beer thread, but this time with a clear jazz  
> connection.
> How did those Americans come to know Bass Ale, anyway?  Rather good
> ale, don't you agree?
> Cheers
>
>
> On 05/11/2009, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> Yes, Marek, and Steve Brown was around for long enough that there  
>> might be reasonable hypotheses about his having influenced players  
>> who weren't white, quite apart from his merits as a bassist and a  
>> musician.
>> I didn't see any light until the 1950s but beside a precocious  
>> interest in Acker Bilk I did have some ancient 78s to hand and on  
>> the other side of one from a track by Nathaniel Shilkret and his  
>> Orchestra there was and still is "Slow River" by Goldkette with a  
>> rhythm section of the same order as the famous one Wellman Braud  
>> starred in, the lovely little bowed surges finally being replaced  
>> by the pluck and slap of Steve Brown. Even on some Goldkette tracks  
>> which Ken Mathieson tells me he couldn't listen to without a  
>> vododeo filter there are some wonderful dynamic dancing phrases  
>> evoked by the hands of Steve B.
>> Nice music to unearth this time of an evening. Something for the  
>> stressed man's heartbeat to aspire to.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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