<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 23:24, Stan Brager <<a href="mailto:stanbrager@gmail.com">stanbrager@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Harry James was not always associated with swing era jazz. In his later<br>
years, his music played more modern jazz </blockquote><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div>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!</div><div>Cheers<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">for which than he's given credit.<br>
I remember hearing him in Los Angeles playing in that vein.<br>
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Stan<br>
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