[Dixielandjazz] New Rules for Jazz Bands

[Norman Vickers]

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From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola

 

New Orleans native, percussionist, jazz historian/author/ educator Charles
Suhor, now of  Montgomery, AL sends  this communication.  His e-address is
below.  Don't shoot the messenger. (smile)

 

From: Charles Suhor [mailto:csuhor at zebra.net] 
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:37 PM
To: Norman Vickers
Subject: New Rules for Jazz Bands

 

 

New Rules for Jazz Bands: Please Post

 

--$50 fine for anyone who affects a gravelly voice to imitate Louis
Armstrong

--$100 fine if the song is "Hello, Dolly" or "What a Wonderful World"

--$150 fine if the song is "Saints"

--$200 fine if the singer holds a white handkerchief

--$300 fine if he's a white guy

 

All fines waived if the imitator does Armstrong's scat vocal on the 1927 Hot
Five "Hotter Than That" and can do a credible performance of the cornet solo
(link below).            

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCaSjrtk0Eo