[Dixielandjazz] grandparents in the swing era blues?

[Sep Troelstra]

IIRC, Miles Davis had a huge admiration for Harry james!

Sep

Op 7-5-2020 om 1:02 schreef Andrew Homzy:
> Hello Marek,
>
> While I appreciate your postings here, I find your musical limitations 
> disqualify you from offering any cogent assessment of jazz artists who 
> reach beyond rather basic entertainment.
>
> Harry James was a master trumpeter and capable of a wide range of 
> artistic expression.
>
> His massive discography speaks volumes to his scope.Were he alive 
> today, he might have put out a big band hip-hop recording ~~~
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>> On May 6, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:marekboym at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 23:24, Stan Brager <stanbrager at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:stanbrager at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Harry James was not always associated with swing era jazz.  In
>>     his later
>>     years, his music played more modern jazz 
>>
>>
>> I have never heard James live, but I've heard his later recordings.  
>> So, true, it was not always swing era jazz, but modern?  I'd say 
>> sweet, even syrupy, but modern?
>> Many years ago a Canadian journalist was rather upset when we 
>> referred to Harry James as a jazz musician.  "What? He and his 
>> terrible dance band trumpet?"  Of course we right away started 
>> playing James' old records as a blindfold test.  He inferred who it 
>> was from the context, but said he had never heard James playing like 
>> that.  I ave some small (and big) band later recordings, with Willie 
>> Smith and Corky Corcoran, and they are anything but modern!
>
>
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