[Dixielandjazz] Pensacola & Archaejazzology

[Marek Boym]

Represented inadequately by Donald Lambert?!  He was one of the best!
Cheers

On 8 January 2018 at 18:58, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fylxor4zo0w
> Art Tatum plays Chopin (Valse in C# Minor, Op. 64, No. 2)
>
> I'm not saying Tatum had necessarily much to do with Pensacola --
> but this sort of operation with Chopin or whoever had something to do with
> certainly the son of the Father and Son team of Paul Seminole and, well,
> Paul Seminole, of the under-recorded or even unrecorded generations of
> pre-jazz to pretty well pre-bop piano, as represented inadequately on disc
> by Clarence Profit and Donald Lambert, or not at all. I finally did track
> down a recording on which one of the legendary Seminoles plays, I can't
> remember whether he is audible, but that's only because he played ...banjo
> rather than piano ... not the instrument I was interested in.  It would be
> interesting to know what relationship there was between some of the raggier
> items Speckled Red recorded when prior to the now recently deceased and evr
> to be admired Paul Oliver's amazing 1960 filed-trip to the USA the also
> ever to be admired Bob Koester had made recordings of Speckled Red, raggy
> barrelhouse pianist and a man who learned from the elder Seminole, who
> seems to have reached New York when Stride piano was starting to hit its
> kick .
> It's an amusing business jazz archaeology, and probably a few recordings
> exist which would be relevant, people playing really new things of maybe a
> mickey mouse level of interest after other people had found in them new
> things which exposed their lack of interest other than for some novelties
> which really did feed the rise of jazz as better music. Of course with the
> rise of commercial pressures the improvements were gradually taken in hand
> and musical standards were allowed to degenerate into more lucrative Mickey
> Mouse.  And thus although it should be clear to anybody knowledgeable about
> stride piano that Blanche Merrill was a considerable stride pianist, the
> signs of her extraordinary competence are mere markers for the cognoscenti
> and cancelled out very much as music qua music by the misuse of the music
> (what else was a doctored piano for) not to mention the services of Milt
> Hinton on bass and the guitarist/ banjoist (alas restricted to banjo,
> though he did a very nice CD on that implement) in whose band Ellington was
> the piano player -- Elmer Snowden, who is considerably more interesting on
> his duo recordings with Lonnie Johnson than Johnson was capable of being by
> the time Prestige was further inflating his discography.
> Well, at least I mentioned Elmer Snowden's recordings with Lonnie Johnson
> on which nobody sings and Snowden takes the guitar lead, just lovely guitar
> jams . But when Pensacola was mentioned, I remembered mentioning the
> Seminoles before, and their extensive touring milieu, and why not represent
> the early player and his son who died young by making an excuse to play
> Donald Lambert's Beethoven, and maybe Speckled Red's "Wilkins Street Stomp"?
> "Dad's Piece" be unto you too!
> Robert R. Calder
>
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