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

[Charles Suhor]

I could have done without the Calloway stuff but I found this to be an interesting and distinctive performance, "hot jazz" in the best sense of that phrase. To my taste it's far and away preferable to some of the interchangeable banjo-and-tuba trad bands I've heard on the internet.

Charlie Suhor


On Sep 15, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Steve Voce 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!
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> Steve Voce
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 15 Sep 2014, at 16:08, "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> 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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