[Dixielandjazz] Bolden and Jabbo

[Steve Voce]

I was surprised, when re-listening to the RCA/Deccas, at how well Bunk 
could pop out a swing riff in the ensembles.

Steve Voce


On 17/04/2017 17:56, Marek Boym wrote:
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> On 17 April 2017 at 03:49, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:serapion at btinternet.com>> wrote:
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>     I missed out looking up where Jabbo was from.
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>     It's also interesting that in his recordings with the New York
>     band Bunk worked very successfully with East Coast Musicians who
>     had been through the business of jazz through the 1920s and 1930s,
>     professionals very different from the George Lewis and Jim
>     Robinson mould.
>
>
> According to the various accounts I've read, Bunk hated that Jim 
> Robinson-George Lewis band.  The band became much better when Bunk was 
> replaced by Kid Howard.
> Bunk was a much better schooled musician than Robinson and Lewis, and 
> his work with other musicians was much better than those widely 
> acclaimed  American Music recordings (according to Barry Martyn of 
> GHB, the original American Music Bunk Johnson records were pressed at 
> a slightly wrong speed, preserved in all reissues prior to the 
> renincarnated American Musi CDs, which might partly, or even wholly, 
> account for the inferior sound of the band).  To me, the best Bunk is 
> the "Spicy Advice" session, but he made wonderful recordings on the 
> West Coast, both with such black musicians as Kid Ory and Wade Whaley.
> Cheers
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