[Dixielandjazz] Fwd: Happy Birthday Jon Faddis

[Marek Boym]

Thank you for the link, Roger.  A very interesting article.
The truth, however, is more complicated.
I read the JT "Blindfold Test," and my impression was a bit different.  I
remember that Feather played a So Yaged record for Teagarden, and the
latter first identified it a Goodman, but then corrected himself and said
"Sol Yaged."  Feather was very impressed and said that he had tried to see
whether anybody could distinguish between the two.
According to his book "My Life in Jazz," he was instrumental in organizing
a recording session for Teagarden (I have not checked it).  In that book he
also referred to his frienship with Henry "Red" Allen, hardly a modernist,
even if he really was "the most avant-garde trupeter in New York" (as per
the avant-garde trumpeter Don Ellis).
Before coming to the States, Feather was involved in several pretty good
swing sessions.  As a pianist, he was mediocre at best, but boasted that he
could outplay Hodes (one of my favourite pianists) "with one hand tied
behind his back."
The article refers to Muggsy Spanier; in that context, the latter's
"Feather Brain Blues" deserves a mention.
And a word about Miles Davis - I mainly remember him as the guy who spoils
so many Charlie Parker recordings.
Cheers

On 24 July 2015 at 16:09, Roger Wade <rwade1947 at comcast.net> wrote:

> The late Chicago trombonist Jim Beebe, a frequent contributor to this list
> in its early years, shared a personal experience about a time when Miles
> Davis was the guest artist with Bob Scobey’s Frisco Jazz Band and Jim had a
> chance to speak with Miles about this very subject.  The main thrust of the
> piece was about the critic, Leonard Feather, but the Miles Davis/Bob Scobey
> vignette is in the body of the story.  Here is a link:
>
> http://leeharrismusic.net/leonard_feather.htm
>
> Roger Wade
> Really Old Records
>
>
> > On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Funny berets?  I've read about them, but never saw them in real life.
> > And in the early '40's there were lots of "mixed" recordings, later
> > intentionally continued by JATP.  Don Byas and Trummy Young played with
> > Gillespie (I have a recording).
> > Funny noises -sure, I've heard those!
> > Cheers
> >
> > On 24 July 2015 at 12:49, Patrick Ladd <patrickjladd at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> << 'modernists" could play and get along with swing and Dixieland
> >> musicians.>>
> >>
> >> Good grief! What perversion  of history have we here?  We used to fight
> >> them in the streets. Those oddballs with their funny berets and even
> >> funnier noises (well, something like that) Pat
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Marek Boym
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 9:41 PM
> >> To: Pat Ladd
> >> Cc: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List
> >> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Fwd: Happy Birthday Jon Faddis
> >>
> >>  And
> >> here was a young kid who went back to the roots of bebop, the days it
> had
> >> not yet moved that far from jazz, and 'modernists" could play and get
> along
> >> with swing and Dixieland musicians.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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