[Dixielandjazz] Small Band Swing or Dixieland?

[Marek Boym]

Hello Jim, Steve,
Colour has very little to do with it, but there were days it did.
Darensbourg played with Charlie Creath and Buddy Petit; hence, he was
not white - in those days no white musician would play with a black
band (OK, I know of Sidney Arodin).
Cheers
On 14 February 2011 20:38, Jim Kashishian <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
>
>
> Steve Voce wrote:
>>Although he played with Ory, I think Joe Darensbourg was probably white. He
> would never be drawn on the subject.
>
> I played with him in the 50's at a Los Angeles session.  I'd say he was
> Creole.  Had the same coloring as Kid Ory...and much the same as the reed
> player with Teddy Buckner Caughy Roberts.  I never heard that he was white.
>
>
> Actually, the Armenian side of my family has about the same coloring, also,
> but Darensbourg doesn't sound very Armenian! Maybe it was originally
> Darensbourgian!
>
> Jim Kashishian
>
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