[Dixielandjazz] "Gate Mouth"

[John Gill]

Many years ago while playing a gig in Washington DC, I made several trips to The Library of Congress and turned up many interesting "Classic" jazz lead sheets. These were filed for copyright purposes. I found many compositions by Armstrong, Oliver, Ory, Lil Hardin, etc.
Anyway, the other day I decided to put together a simple lead sheet arrangement of the tune "Gate Mouth" and remembering that it was one of the titles I found at the Library of Congress I thought I would see how it compared to the recording done by The New Orleans Boot Blacks back in July 1926. First of all the lead sheet is in F concert and the recording is in Eb. But the most interesting thing is that in the B section there are an extra 4 bars of breaks that do not appear on the recording. So I thought that might be something that would intrest some of you. I intend to use the extra 4 bars on my leadsheet.
The composer is listed as Louis Armstrong (his hand writing) and copyrighted Jul 19 1926. The main part of the song is probably an old New Orleans theme that had been floating around as it appears in other places as "Do What Ory Say" by Kid Ory and "Mama's Baby Boy" by Johnny St. Cyr. The St. Cyr version also sports a different verse. 
So thats it. There's always something new to learn.
John Gill