[Dixielandjazz] "Gate Mouth"

[Louis Lince]

Hi John,

Sorry to be the pedant but "Gatemouth" was recorded by the New Orleans 
Wanderers July 13 1926. The New Orleans Bootblacks (same personnel) recorded 
the next day July 14. Oh for a time machine to be in that studio!

best

Louis

I might have beaten Bill Haesler to it this time!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Gill" <smokewagon at yahoo.com>
To: <louislince at neworleansmusic.demon.co.uk>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 7:29 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] "Gate Mouth"


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
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