[Dixielandjazz] Mobile Stomp

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Ishman Bracey was I'd think unlikely to have composed the Mobile Stomp under 
discussion. An impressive bluesman of depth rather than range, with some lovely 
doomy stuff either solo or with mandolin or ...
a trio with the otherwise obscure Kid Ernest Michall of New Orleans on clarinet, 
alternating 

between Johnny Doddsish through slap-tonguing growls and wails commonly 
associated with Klezmer; and the Louisiana barrelhouse pianist Charley 44 
Taylor, who 

ranged from a knocked-out ragtime to the sort of thing Sunnyland Slim was doing 
on record from the 1940s through the 1990s with Muddy Waters and others. 

It's Michall and Taylor on the "Mobile Stomp" on YouTube, great stuff if the 
clarinetitis doesn'r alarm your ears. Quite possibly they recorded the track and 

then thought up a title. Rural southern jazz from when the booze was illegal.
Taylor was one of the ear pianists whose fingering horrifies piano teachers but 
whose inevitably original approach to playing blues could even generate a new 
composition. Which could also be a pianist's entire repertoire, The Bracey 
Mobile Stomp #
and the Farish Street title are not blues but  OKOM.  The clarinet and piano 
also 

appear on some of Bracey's vocal performances, but there are times when the rare 
copies
of other items used to dub to LP and then CD were not well.