[Dixielandjazz] Latin Influences on Early Jazz

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For Scottish drumming, I have often played with Bert Thompson around the
Bay Area. He played snare in pipe bands and his jazz drumming still
incorporates some of that style.

Dave Richoux

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Ken Mathieson <
ken at kenmath.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Just a quickie with some responses to questions raised by listmates in
> this interesting thread:
>
> Charlie asked about choro on Youtube: there's stacks of it there covering
> all the eras. Chiquinha Gonzalez for the 19th century beginnings, Ernesto
> Nazareth for the early 20th century, Pixinguinha for the 1920s to 40s,
> Jacob do Bandolim for the 1950s & 60, Severino Araujo for big band choro,
> Paulo Moura for contemporary recreations of choro from earlier eras, and
> any number of recent choro players who have revived the tradition and are
> writing new material.
>
> Dave wondered about the pronunciation of Pixinguinha and was close with
> his 2nd option: it should peesh-een-geenya (the "n" sounds are nasalised
> and the "g" is hard). If anyone is looking for translations or
> pronunciations, just let me know: I lived in Brasil and speak Portuguese. I
> also played in a night club in Sao Paulo and learned the hard way about the
> difference between "gringo samba" and the real thing. Dave also gave a link
> to a choro blogspot at http://choro-music.blogspot.com/  and that is a
> fantastic resource for anyone interested in choro. It's also in English.
>
> I mentioned Martinique beguines as being similar to New Orleans Creole
> music: Youtube has some great tracks by Ernest Leardee. Look for the items
> with artwork of palm trees in a yellow square. They all feature 2 clarinets
> plus rhythm and their improvisations remind me strongly of the playing of
> Big Eye Louis Nelson and Alphonse Picou on the Kid Rena sides. Try Ce Filon
> for starters, but they're all lovely tracks. If you want to hear the
> beguine tradition at an earlier stage Youtube also has tracks by Alexandre
> Stellio.
>
> For anyone wanting to hear what drummers get up to in Scottish Country
> Dance Bands try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_TizUEE_aE and see if
> you can see what Jake Hanna was getting at when he said he could hear lots
> of this drumming in the playing of the early jazz drummers. It pushes the
> music along and would swing if the heavy downbeats on piano and bass were
> removed and replaced with a 4 feel.
>
> Right, enough already, I'm off to listen to some jazz now!
>
> Cheers,
> Ken
>
>
>
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