[Dixielandjazz] Charlie Parker

[Marek Boym]

Sorry to say so, Richard, but Omer Simeon does not play on Bunk and Lu.
Must have been something else.
BTW, to my ears it sounds much better than the band with George Lewis.
Cheers

On 22 July 2010 21:36, FLECKNELL RICHARD <richard.flecknell at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> My opinion of Parker is that his strengths are not speed or relative complex
> harmonic choices. No it's his emotional impact that comes across to me - add
> to his abilitiy to play the blues in such, then of course, a new and
> convincing way.
>
> Steve B - Omer Simeon featured on one of  two American records that my uncle
> owned back in the sixties - this more than anything else set me on the Jazz
> Trail.
>
> Those records were Bunk & Lu (Good Time Jazz) and Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band
> (Vogue ... Good Time Jazz).  They are still great to me.
>
> The records in my father's household were Kenny Ball At The Empire Theatre
> Liverpool and Chris Barber At The London Palladium - still great to my ears.
>
> Bill - I still get a kick listening to Bud Scott singing Under The Bamboo
> Tree.  What's that Bill 'not Scott but Bill Johnson' surely not.
>
> Richard
> OzOd Capt.
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