[Dixielandjazz] FW: Shorty with a St. James twist

Marek Boym marekboym at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 11:34:42 PDT 2014


Narrowed with experience, Steve.  Having separated the grain, i'm not going
back to chaff!
But to each his/her own.
Cheers

On 15 September 2014 19:09, Steve Voce <stevevoce at virginmedia.com> wrote:

> In the excellent St James Infirmary he used a large section of the Cab
> Calloway version from the 30s. Maryk's outlook isn't particularly old
> fashioned, it's just very narrow!
>
> Steve Voce
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 15 Sep 2014, at 16:08, "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Marek wrote:
> >> The beginning sounded OK, albeit too high, but after some five minutes
> it
> > deteriorated into modern mayhem.
> >
> > Ha, ha!  Of course I had you in mind, Marek, when I wrote that some
> wouldn't
> > like it at all!  :>
> > That's ok.  Everyone to their own.  However, you can't say such a band
> plays
> > "mayhem".  They are tight, tight, tight!  Modern, yes.  Showy, yes.  But,
> > certainly not mayhem.
> >
> > The amazing thing is the amount of OKOM songs Shorty puts into his
> concerts.
> > Granted, he puts a different slant to the tunes, but he is still
> respecting
> > the older songs.  Listen to him "tipping his hat" to Louis Armstrong on
> > Youtube on "Sunny Side of the Street".
> >
> > Cheers, Jim
> >
> >
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