[Dixielandjazz] Dead Man Blues - Jazz in Marciac 2011

[Marek Boym]

Hi,
I have seen the entire Marsalis performance (not just "Dead Man
Blues") on Mezzo (a French music channel) before.  I'm with Gary on
this - I like the performance on the whole  (without going into the
technical stuff referred to by Paul Kurtz Jnr.).  I also liked some
other traditional performances by Marsalis, but not his "modern"
playing.
I tried to like Al Hirt.  Back in 1961, when I was in regular army
service, my mother went to the US and brought me back some records,
among them - an Al Hirt-Pete Fountain LP on Verve.  I was very
impressed by the "two bearded giants" blurb in the liner notes, but
much less so - by the playing.  I liked Fountain and the others, all
except for the "boppish" (for lack of better description) playing of
Al Hirt.  I still have the record and occasionally play it, and always
get the same impression.

Daniel Huck is a different proposition.  I heard him live in Nice, and
was very impressed.  Not too crazy about his singing, but his playing
was wonderful!  I did not know he played other kinds of music.

Cheers


>
> Ok, I'm going to stick my neck out a bit further to make it easier to swing
> the ax. I think Wynton is great. Do I like everything he does, no, but most
> is MKOM. A lot like Al Hirt. Many adore him, and the rest think he was a
> commercial waste of extraordinary talent. I like it all.

>
> My tastes are surely a lot wider than many fundamentalists here.
>
>
>
> Personally, I think the rhythm section swung just fine and I'd be happy to
> play with players of this caliber. I was not bothered by Wynton's insect
> startup of his solo. I found it quite imaginative and fun. We only have one
> clip of this concert; I would tire if he did that on every tune, but I doubt
> that to be the case.



> Ok, let's rock the boat a bit more. Another personage that has his hard core
> fans and his less enamored is my buddy Daniel Huck. Here is a clip of him
> sitting in with Hot Antic JB. Daniel scats after the vocals then has the
> second sax solo.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQfQDOr2Fj8
> Daniel is capable of playing all sorts of music modern, old, jazz and non
> jazz. However, some think he is wasting our time when he plays old style
> jazz. I disagree. I think he is great and enjoy every time I share the
> bandstand with him. He is on a tune on our last CD. Ok, what do you think --
> Daniel good; Daniel bad?
>

>
>
>
> On 16/08/2011 15:21, Ron L'Herault wrote:
>>
>> The washboard player was good.  WM's solo sounded like an angry insect for
>> the first part and lacked much feeling or creation of tonal color, subtle
>> timing during the parts where he played fewer notes then he reverted to
>> the
>> million note runs again.  The drummer seemed to get a nice groove going
>> with
>> an emphasis on the first beat -no swing there.  Couldn't bear to listen to
>> the whole thing.
>>
>> Ron L
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gary Kiser
>>
>> There are many that dislike Wynton. I personally think he draws good
>> attention to the old classics even if not played how perfectionists
>> would prefer they be played.
>>
>> Dead Man Blues - Jazz in Marciac 2011
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSoEHUKr7VU
>>
>> All the best, Gary
>
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