[Dixielandjazz] Steve Brown

[Marek Boym]

And often forgotten, because he was white!
Cheers

On 05/11/2009, Don Ingle <cornet at 1010internet.com> wrote:
> ROBERT R. CALDER 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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> Steve Brown's recording of My Pretty Girl with Goldkette is a great
> exampleof his slap bass style. It made the side romp. The straigh sweet
> trombone melody against the hot clarinet was a wonderful contract,and the
> trombonist was Spiegle Willcox. The other side featured the solo by Bix
> onClemintine - a solor tha tmade me toss the clarinet and turn to cornet. It
> was, as history proved,the hottest bandgoing at that point in time.
> Steve was the brother of New Orleans trombonist Tom Brown, by the way.
>
> Don Ingle
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