[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 193, Issue 1

[Jean Marc Ternois]

Dick, thanks for those clarifications, I’ll keep Ray Smith’s notice and put
that tune on my list.
Jean Marc

Le mar. 1 janv. 2019 à 19:27, Dick Baker <djml at dickbaker.org> a écrit :

> At 09:00 AM 1/1/2019, Jean Marc Ternois wrote:
>
> >I found also a tune named Kamaquit credited to Turk on the album "Turk
> >Murphy at the Roundtable".
> >Jean Marc
>
> That's another one I researched for Stomp Off.  I ended up leaving it
> composer unknown based on these reports:
>
> Ray Smith:  It's a safe assumption that Kamaquit is a Turk Murphy original.
>
> Robbie Rhodes:  Bob Helm and Tom Bartlett believe that it's a
> Jamaican tune Turk heard in NY City.  Mike Ferguson [long-time West
> Coast music lover] relates, "Turk told me it was a South American
> tune, and called it [gives odd spelling with accented letters]."  At
> least Turk didn't call it his own composition!
>
> Vince Saunders remembers that it was a contemporary tune Turk heard
> on NY trip (he recorded it live at Roundtable club in NY in 1959),
> not an old folk tune.
>
> 11/18/00:  John Gill writes, "Turk told me it was something he heard
> on the radio.  Later on someone told him it was an old Spanish folk
> song called 'Comofay' (my spelling)."
>
>
> --
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>       Dick Baker
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