[Dixielandjazz] Kenny Baker & Chris Barber

[Marek Boym]

I seem to be replying to my own email!  Serves me right for being
hasty and writing before having read the other comments.
If the record in question is indeed MAX HARRIS AND THE NEW RED HOT
PEPPERS, it was a pretty good imitation, but without slavish copying
the solos.
Cheers


On 20/02/2010, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm fairly certain that Kenny Baker was also involved in another recreation
> > project involving the music of Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers. I have
> > the resulting LP but cannot put my hands on it at present so I am working
> > from memory.
>
> But was it aimed at copying, or recreating?  No necessarily the same thing!
>
> In this case I believe that the music was required for a
> > modern dance show involving Twyla Tharp - possibly for the BBC. It was felt
> > that thr original recordings weren't suitable for use so the recreation was
> > commissioned.  The result makes interesting listening, but I share Ken's
> > view about the polished (and studied) performances lacking the feel and
> > immediacy of the originals.  Of the other players I can only recall that
> > Judd Proctor played banjo but I do remember that, brilliant player though he
> > was, Kenny Baker sounded nothing at all like George Mitchell - but then >who does!
>
> Did he meant to?  Probably not - he was great, he knew it, and
> probably did not aim to sound like Mitchell.  On the Armstrong series,
> he did a pretty good pastiche of the master.
>
> Cheers
>