[Dixielandjazz] Saint Louis Blues ~ Louis ~ Stan Brager

[Harry Callaghan]

And I'm not ashamed to admit that I like Fats Domino..........

I know he's not a trumpet player but we're starting off a brand new week
here and I want to make sure I don't have any leftovers to deal with.

No, I haven't read anything by Christopher Marlowe but I have at least heard
the name.  If I received this a coupla hours later, I probably would have
said that he was the detective in the Raymond Chandler novels but I'm not
cranking on all 8 this early in the morning

We can go on naming our favorite trumpeters till the cows come home, but
what it really boils down to is if everybody's tastes were identical and we
were all in total agreement, it would be a pretty dull world.

HC


On 3/14/10, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > While the greatness of Miles Davis and what he accomplished in the jazz
> > world is certainly something that cannot be denied,
>
> Why can't it?  Ever heard of Christopher Marlowe?  I rather doubt it.
> He was a playwright in Shakespeare's times, and was considered the
> best.  Yet, other than Volpone, his plays have been forgotten and even
> Volpone I've only seen played by university students theatre groups,
> neve a professonal theatre.
>
> as with Marek, he has
> > never really been exactly my cup of tea.
> >
> >> Due to the fact that he lost his life in a car accident at the tender
> age of
> > 26, we will never truly know what would have eventually become of the
> career
> > of Clifford Brown and can only speculate.
>
> Long ago, and I wish I couldn't say so, I knew his style very well,
> and never took to it.  Once, to convince me (reeducation, you see,
> just like in Communist countries), a friend played Brownie doing
> standards.  my reaction was: "First, it's Clifford Brown, and second -
> stop that boring music."  But nobody is perfect - I admit liking Fats
> Navarro/
> >
>
> >
> > I have avoided naming such figures as Harry James and Doc Severinsen due
> to
> > the fact that I do not believe that the vast majority of their work could
> > really be considered jazz but being the big band lover that I will always
> > be, I'm sure you will agree with me that they are at least deserving of
> > honorable mention here.
>
> I don't know about Doc, but James' certainly was.  Many years ago I
> mentioned James as a great jazz trumpeter at our jazz evening, and a
> Canadian journalist friend objected, quoting his "terrible dance band
> sound."  We proceeded to play James with the boogie woogie pianists,
> Just a Mood with Wilson and Norvo, and some other old recordings.  He
> guessed it was James (from the context), but claimed he had never
> heard James playing like that.  Nevertheless, I have heard some
> excellent jazz played by James' later bands, albeit mixed with lots of
> shmaltzy ballads and with some of that "terrible dance band sound."
> Cheers
> >
> >
>



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