[Dixielandjazz] Leo Reisman/Bubber Miley

[Dick Baker]

>Bill, I don't know how you can claim that Bubber Miley is "clearly 
>featured" on this video.  There's not a trumpet solo anywhere in the 
>medley, and only one lukewarm (by no means hot) trumpet break near 
>the end.  Yeah, the trumpeter in silhouette is using a mute, but the 
>mute alone does not a Bubber make.




>LEO REISMAN and his Hotel Brunswick  Orchestra
>Vitaphone Reel 770, March 1929
>
>Restored about 14 years  ago, film for this short was much sought-after
>because the surviving Vitaphone  disc clearly featured African-American hot
>trumpeter James "Bubber" Miley. The  question was, how was he presented
>on-screen? Showing a mixed-race ensemble on a  cinema screen was completely
>verboten in America in the twenties and into the  Thirties. This 
>finally-located
>mute element resolves that conundrum...Anyone who  thinks of the Leo Reisman
>band as tending to sweet and commercial will be  completely surprised by this
>film, it has true jazz. The excellent vocalist is  Paul Small.
>
>Songs: "Moochie (Ellington), "Water of Perkiomen," "If I had  You,"
>"Hyo-Mio," "Milenberg Joys," "Lonely," "Some of these  days."
>
>http://youtu.be/KY8j8mIEWsw
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Bill  Sargent
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>
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      Dick Baker
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