[Dixielandjazz] George Lewis ~ Impact

[Stan Brager]

Richard;

When I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles, my father one day decided that he wanted to listen to a jazz radio show hosted by Frank Bull. Bull played contemporary Chicago styled jazz, Firehouse 5 + 2, Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix and Tram, Louis Armstrong and others. I must admit I wasn't really taken with most of the music he played. But there were 3 recordings which made an impression on my young ears - one was the de Paris Brother's "Martinique" and the others were George Lewis' "Ice Cream" and "Burgundy Street Blues" with Monette Moore. Later, sometime after 1985, that entire George Lewis 1953 session was released on CD. The entire album was a gas from the first note to the last.

Stan
Stan Brager 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com
> [mailto:richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 1:32 AM
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> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] George Lewis ~ Impact
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> Fellow mailers,
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> Steve B led by his accounts of George arriving in New York.
> What about you folks who were already listening to the likes of
> Watters, Murphy, Scobey , FH5 + 2 on the West Side.
> Did you, on initial impact , like the Lewis Bands approach. Bunk w
> Murphy had past by and that was the 40s. Even Ory might have been taken
> aback for all I know about it. I wasn't there. Ory had been away from
> the Crescent City for many years.
> Beverley Caverns and other clubs out there ~ let me know reading lp
> covers is okay but your first hand accounts would be better. Some may
> have met them (and Ory band)
> 
> I still haven't seen the Life mag article. Didn't John Casimir feature
> in one issue too or was that Capt John Handy or both or neither.
> 
> Richard
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