[Dixielandjazz] Buddy Bolden, was Armstrong-Eldridge

[Keith Garner]

Hi All

Ken's recent post - and particularlyhis mention of No One Else But You - 
made me realise just how much we owe today to technology together with 
the internet and email forums like this one.

I first heard this number back in the 60s at the Manchester Sports 
Guild. John Chilton used to vist from time to time with his Swing Kings, 
with a front line of his trumpet and two saxes - either two tenors or 
alto and tenor,at this distance  I can't remember which. I saw him twice 
and he played NOEBY on both occasions. I was very struck by the number 
and when I got home worked out an approximation of it on the piano, 
later doing an arrangement ofmy version of it for my band - which had a 
front line of trumpet, alto and baritone. We played it for quite a time 
and included it on our one and only LP. It was only quite recently, when 
I bought the boxed set of the complete Hot Fives and Sevens that I 
discovered its origins.

Now think how that would have gone today - over fifty years later.  I 
would probably have had a recorder on me when I heard it, do my 
transcription would have been more accurate .... if I had a smart phone 
I could have looked it up even while it was being played. I could have 
found versions on YouTube and elsewhere, The chords if not the sheet 
music are probably on-line somewhere ..... and if I'd mentioned it on 
this list there would have been a wide range of details provided by 
listmates much better informed than me. It seems to me that some things 
definitely change for the better -- although working it out the way I 
did was probably a lot more fun.

Regards
Keith Garner
One time leader of The Five Towns Footwarmers


On 15/04/2017 15:54, Ken Mathieson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been enjoying your interesting, not to mention inflammatory, 
> posts recently .......

> ........., followed by Don Redmond's No One Else But You, followed by 
> ........