Reports of players sounding better live must be approached with caution. A live gig offers far less scope for detailed analysis and although adrenalin may flow...
I think this question needs to be qualified. I can think of numerous examples from recent years of players who sound better on live recordings than they do on...
Dave, Is there any evidence that there was any kind of animosity between Williams and Fuller? Fuller recorded with both Tom Morris and Buddy Christian, who...
Howard 'Recent years' I generally don't do but would be interested in examples. Also when is live live ? Performing on stage before a battery of mikes and ...
Howard, David, Michael Howard, are right in this regard (Fuller) and I must add to this that there are several records I was listening to last week with him...
I was afraid youıd ask that since most of the examples that come readily to my mind are blues rather than jazz. Compare B.B. King Live At The Apollo (1990,...
There are several answers to this question, and I am too tired to read the whole thread to see if this this name was broached anon, but I would suggest Louis...
' shop-worn sentimentalism -- ' is indeed a wonderful phrase even if probably translator enhanced. Now what was he referring to ? [Non-text portions of this...
Unfortunately I donıt have Le Vrai Jazz in French so I canıt tell you, but he approved this translation and his English was quite good enough to know what he...
Williams and Fuller are thought likely on George McClennon's Jazz Devils' OKeh 8143 (somewhat less so on 8150)... Fuller had imagination and a range of musical...
... From: "Howard Rye" The original French is: Sa façon de chanter les mélodies les plus tendres dıun air goguenard qui ridiculise le sentimentalisme de...
... or rather "(his) tone/ridicules/sentimentalism" (which boils down to the same thing, but I do not want to add more confusion to a verbless sentence)...
Itıs not verbless in the original, Patrice. I only translated the relevant clauses. It goes on and on with a long list of characteristics of Fats Wallerıs...
I certainly don't know French, but I do know that a strong point of Fats's sing was to take the inane, overly-sentimental lyrics to a song, and, by over-doing...
Bob Mates
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Sep 3, 2008 6:05 am
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I love Fats but he demeaned the great songs along with the dross. Compare with, for instance, Billie who enhanced the dross as well as the great songs. Or with...
It just goes to prove that, more than any other form of music, jazz is an outgrowth of the performer's personality. Billie's songs were full of emotion,...
Bob Mates
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Sep 3, 2008 11:41 am
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I'm looking for Hal Denman and his Carolina Cotton Pickers recordings... specifically ones recorded at Gennet in Richmond Indiana. My Great Grandfather, Walter...
Hello Bob Yes, Fats great performer and musician. And yes, without the humour there would surely be less because that's what sold. Received cliché that within...
Great artists who get trapped in commercial formulas have a great tendency to become parodies of themselves. Ray Charles is a terrible more recent example....
Hi, Dave: You have a good point: perhaps, Fats was a victim of his own persona; had to live up to his image. When that happens, you try to be funny. Of...
Bob Mates
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Sep 4, 2008 10:08 am
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I was recently able to obtain a cheap copy of the Reich/Gaines book on Jelly Roll Morton. While I did spot a number of factual errors (Bernie Young described...
The certificate itself is reproduced in Storyville 127 and shows 20 October 1890. It is hardly an estimate. It is unambiguously given as the birth date on a...
Red Allen recorded 'Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddle' and 'On The Beach At Bali-Bali' and other such insubstantial and inappropriate material. But he made...
Gaines/Reich devote an entire annex to the issue of the birthdate. In brief, their points are: 1. The certificate of baptism was issued in 1984. 2. Interviews...
So I was right about the certificate. It all comes down to whether Larry really saw the baptismal entry and if not to whether we trust, as he evidently did...
The problem with oral evidence is that, sometimes, the memory is faulty. For instance, in the blues research, you have many bluesmen giving dates that, when...
Bob Mates
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Sep 4, 2008 6:24 pm
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... Gaines and Reich have their own agenda expressed clearly in the sub-title of their book, namely to "redeem" Jelly, in particular to show that he was not...
I think we can forget getting any nearer to a birth certificate than a baptismal certificate for someone in Jellyıs social stratum at that time and date. ...
Obviously there is a sort of "standard version of reality" where a person was born at a specific time and place. But I also think it valuable to hold on to...
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