[Dixielandjazz] Jazz anthology

[Marek Boym]

Oh, memories!
That set gave me my first chance to actually hear Lu Watters and many
other musicians who had hereto been just names, or of wom I hade never
heard before.  Previously, I knew much more modern than traditional
musicians, and listened to modern more than traditional - just because
there were more modern than traditional records at the USIS library
and more "contemporary" music was played on the radio.
BTW, shortly after my arrival in Israel I could not afford records -
American imports cost nearly 10% of slary here - so I borrowed them
from the library.  Luckily, it had quite a few traditional records as
well, and those drew me more and more towards traditional jazz - I
found "modern" progressively boring.
Cheers

On 3 April 2011 09:13, Glen Page <gpage at shaw.ca> wrote:
> After seeing all the posts re. two issued sets of jazz anthologies I
> recalled that I had a briefer one that may appeal to newcomers to the DJML
> list. "The History Of Classic Jazz" was put out by Riverside records many
> years ago, I believe that I purchased the five LP box in 1960 or 1961 at the
> latest.
>
> The "chapter" headings are as follows and each comprise o one side of a 12"
> LP..Backgrounds/ Ragtime/ The Blues/
> New Orleans Style/ Boogie Woogie/ South Side Chicago/ Chicago Style/ Harlem/
> New York Style/ New Orleans Revival.
>
> Whether or not this has been issued on CD is beyond me but I bet somebody
> from Down Under would know. Obviously ten sides cannot cover the given
> titles in any great depth but I think that there would be little questioning
> the selections given if one accepts the contents of the first side which
> includes some African music , street cries and a pre 1920 brass band "very
> much in the brass band tradition". I just noticed that the date of
> publication was  1956, the most recent recording was Lu Watters from 1947. A
> very nice informative booklet accompanies the set and the whole box would be
> a good introduction to OKOM.
>
> Hopefully this is available in some format as it would make a nice
> acquisition for somebody exploring the scope of OKOM without having to
> listen other extraneous  forms of music.
>
> Cheers
>
> Glen Page.
>
>
>
>
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