[Dixielandjazz] JRM & Marsalis

[Robert Ringwald]

Steve Barbone wrote:
 
> On Jan 1, 2012, at 2:56 PM, "Robert Ringwald" <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote about Marsalis:

>> If that is true, then he is doing a great diservice to Jazz by  
>> releasing inferior examples of early Jazz.
 
> Dear Bob:
> 
> If you still; stand by that statement, over 90% of the CDs current  
> OKOM bands release should be destroyed as they do a much greater  
> disservice to Jazz  by releasing far more inferior examples of early  
> jazz  than anything Marsalis has released.


Dear Steve, since when has two wrongs made a right?  We are talking about Marsalis VS Morton.  


>> BTW, regarding your assertion that it slows down noticeably, I put a  
> metronome on it and the time at 4 minutes and 13 seconds is just about  
> the same as the time at the beginning.


Better get a new metronome.  

 
> As part of your "inferior" thesis,  you complain that the Marsalis  
> version noticeably slows down. I think you might be confused as to  
> which is the original JRM record. In the original by JRM  the time  
> slows down quite. noticeably, starting right after the intro.


Again, two wrongs do not make a right.  

As a person who obviously does a lot of reading about early Jazz, I am sure you know that in the early days of recording, the musicians and band leaders often had no control over what the producers released.  There is a lot of mistakes and tempo changes that hav been released over the past 90 or so years.  But, so what?  I still stand by my earlier comments.  In fact, I will state here that IMO the Marsalis recording of "Sidewalk Blues" is full of flaws and is not worthy of Marsalis's talent.  
   

> According to your judgement JRM therefore did a disservice to early  
> jazz.



LOL -- That's a good one Steve.  Give me a break.  

--Bob Ringwald