[Dixielandjazz] was Spanish, or maybe not

[domitype .]

Yank Lawson's "Olé Dixie" - pretty interesting but not exactly OKOM - Chico
Hamilton on drums and percussion added some fun twists to some pop covers
and old standards.

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/y/yank_lawson-ole_dixie.jpg
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ole-dixie/id494455161

Dave Richoux

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:18 AM, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> Ten years ago I was shown by a friend who was reviewing it some book
> involving what might have been taken by some for Spanish Tunes,  and one of
> these was Bechet's "Egyptian Fantasy"  given a ludicrous genealogy, in a
> book revoltingly ignorant it seemed of anything written less than 25 years
> after Bechet's death.
>
>
> Morton does some interesting things with "Miserere" from Verdi's IL
> TROVATORE on the Library of Congress recordings, and at least the opera
> does have a Spanish setting -- but there should be no shortage of options
> either in actual Spanish tunes or tunes with a suitable rhythm.  Yank
> Lawson once upon a time produced an LP of what was supposed Dixie with a
> Latin beat, and somewhere in the past I remember seeing details of a CD by
> a contemporary ragtime piano performer which had a blurb about his trying
> to restore some of the rhythmic interest there might have been in ragtime
> and jazz-related music before a more four-square approach was taken.
>
> If the RedHotJazz archive is accessible it ought to provide a large area
> for sampling, Mediterranean rhythms animate numbers of 1920s recordings,
> displaced I think by fashion on one side and by very positive developments
> which did not accommodate Mediterranean rhythms with so much else going on.
>
>
>
> Little Brother Montgomery used to perform a "Bob Morton Blues" allegedly
> composed by one Bob Morton, but poor Bob's name kept getting lost, starting
> with Paul Oliver mishearing the name as Bob Martin, (Bob Martin's I
> remember was a tonic for dogs!) and it's been "Old Louisiana Blues -- a
> name shifting between various compositions recorded by Brother).  Anyway
> Bob Morton Blues is just, as Brother remarked, Dippermouth Blues played
> slow. The process generates cross-rhythms and allows a bit more playing
> around -- which is what I think the ragtime-latin experimenter was doing,
> and probably Yank too.
>
>
> Hasta la habanera
>
> (and as the great Spanish singer Conchita Supervia observed,
>
> she was Spanish and Habanera was NOT)
>
> Robert R. Calder
>
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