[Dixielandjazz] Leo Reisman/Bubber Miley

[Stan Brager]

"Legit" players can and do play left-handed.

Stan
Stan Brager

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron L'Herault [mailto:lherault at bu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 6:26 AM
> To: 'Dick Baker'
> Cc: 'Dixieland Jazz Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Leo Reisman/Bubber Miley
> 
> If you look closely, you will see that one of the horn players is
> playing
> left handed.  "legit" players would not have done that, but Miley did.
> 
> Ron L
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Dick Baker
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:09 PM
> To: lherault at bu.edu
> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Leo Reisman/Bubber Miley
> 
> 
> >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
> >Studio  414-777-0100  |  Cell   414-305-6955
> >Email  BillSargentDrums at aol.com  |  Web   http://BillSargent.com
> >
> >**********************************************
> 
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