[Dixielandjazz] Ken Colyer

[John Petters]

I'm very surprised, Marek. Are you saying you prefer British Trad to New
Orleans Jazz? Do you regard the Bunk band as free wheeling - or the Mutt
Carey New Yorkers?

Have you heard the live version of 'Weary Blues' with George Lewis and
the Colyer band?

Not a perfect recording - the tempo accelerates drastically in the first
chorus (but the Geo Lewis Band often did the same). To my ears this
contains all the elements required in a jazz band. heat, excitement,
inner rhythms, to which Ken always referred. I don't hear any of these
in 'Capris'. Indeed the recording they based it on was Manone's - and
that did have all those elements.

IMO only bands achieved a real free-wheeling sound in the 50s - Ken's
circa 1957 and the late 50s Bilk band with Ron McKay. In both cases the
drummers were the key component.

Cheers,
John

On 06/04/2013 20:46, Marek Boym wrote:
> De gustibus non disputandum est, John.
> To my ears, whatever Ken Colyer might have thought, the following bands
> were not an improvement at all, and were not as free wheeling as that band.
> But we've been through this before.  I don't think that I'll ever listen
> with your ears - I am physically attached to mine!  And those have all
> these years been telling  me that teh band with Barber whas much
> superior to what followed.
> Cheers
> 
> 

-- 
John Petters
www.traditional-jazz.com
Amateur Radio Station G3YPZ