[Dixielandjazz] Sweet Patunia

[ROBERT Calder]

see Jacques Covo's query below



It's quite possibly a folk tune and rather a transcription than a 
composition, and one favoured by barrelhouse pianists, such as the 
entirely unknown 1930s "Little David" -- who is not to be confused with 
another Dave Alexander of more recent vintage. There is a very nice solo 
piano performance by Doug Suggs, who came from St. Louis and I gather 
had a job at the Chicago White Sox stadium (Comiskey Park?)  where Jimmy 
Yancey (hear him too) was a colleague. Lucille Bogan, wonderful blues 
singer who added edge to her voice by pitching slightly off-note, 
recorded an impressive version but also a very blue one, with Walter 
Roland playing staccato chords on piano, and joining in a vocal duet. 
The title is a metaphor for a body part one presumes was represented in 
Roland's trousers, where according to the words he and Ms. Bogan sang -- 
one presumes for recording engineers since the recording wasn't issued 
before the lyric was part of the topic of an essay by the late Paul 
Oliver entitled "The Blue Blues". Ms. Bogan's unofficial recording 
(retrieved I gather from archives, since the first issue was of a rough, 
presumably worn copy) begins with reference to parts of her own body 
with which any children she had might have been aquainted at feeding 
times (no spoons, no glassware). The deep blue performance has been on 
open access on YouTube. More sensitive auditors can find a cleaner 
version elsewhere. Of course the aptness of the tune title to Bechet 
might be indicated by reference to Johnny Chilton's note regarding what 
a helpful man Sidney Bechet was, asssiting a fellow American, female, 
with her quest for the perfect . . .

Oh, dear, I seem to have reached a word limit,
for that of which the flower was a metaphor

Maintain a clean mind!  As for Ms. Bogan's reference on the private(?s) 
recording the comment regarding her bed-partner's want of bodily hygiene 
cannot be spelled out here,

where to the pure all things are pure,

Robert R. Calder




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Hello to All,
I have not been able to find on the Internet the name of the composer of 
this  famous tune played by Sidney Bechet , Mary Lou Williams and many 
others.
The tune seem to be linked to another tune called Sweet Patunia.
Would somebody know who is the composer?
Regards
Jacques Covo
The Geneva Boogie & Blues 5tet


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