[Dixielandjazz] Louie's horn ..

[Bert Brandsma]

Louis played the cornet on all his 1923 King Oliver dates and on the earliest hot fives. He had allready played trumpet in New York before the Hot fives, but went back to cornet, as that was in fact a go back in history project allready when it started. (He played almost no collective improvisated jazz in New York, but usually solos and harmonie parts, 3rd chair, in more or less written out arrangements) Soon however, Armstrong had much succes with these hot 5 recordings and his dominance gradually increased, certainly when he changed to trumpet after a while. (He also played less mistakes when he took up the trumpet, since when you listen carefully to the cornet recordings you can hear more notes that speak badly or even wrong)

 

I know for sure that one trumpet once owned by Louis was in the New Orleans Jazz museum, but cannot tell if this one was used for the hot fives.

Louis once mentioned in an intervieuw that he bought a new horn every 5 years, and that often he sent his old horn then to his former teacher in the Waif's Home, where he felt he learned so much.

 

Kind regards,

 

Bert Brandsma

www.dixielandcrackerjacks.com


 
> From: sharp-b at clearwire.net
> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:26:22 -0800
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Louie's horn ..
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> In a related note, did Louie ever play anything but a trumpet? was he 
> ever a cornet man?
> 
> Bill -always-playing -Sharp
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