[Dixielandjazz] Mobile Stomp

Louis Lince louislince at neworleansmusic.demon.co.uk
Tue Aug 9 15:55:54 PDT 2011


Follow the link to hear the Mobile Stomp that was originally discussed. I 
still say it's wonderful (based on The waltz you saved for me)

best

Louis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIIQutjtjtc



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ROBERT R. CALDER" <serapion at btinternet.com>
To: <louislince at neworleansmusic.demon.co.uk>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 10:47 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Mobile Stomp


> 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.
>
>
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