Peter, If you know the address of the hotel, use Google Maps and street view or Bing and the equivalent application. You'll be able to see the building that...
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ikey100
Jan 27, 2011 9:57 pm
To that point, if going back into the 19th century, it was the trained immigrant musicians, primarily Italian (in New Orleans) and German, who were the most...
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Charles Bihun
csintala79
Jan 28, 2011 7:27 am
John, There must be many reasons why jazz came from NO and not Charleston or NYC. One that is probably most significant is the differences in culture between...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jan 28, 2011 10:27 am
Of course I do not believe that ˇ°African influences, contributions and notions are monolithic.ˇ± Has anyone ever believed it. Talk about fighting paper...
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John McCusker
ory1886
Jan 28, 2011 1:29 pm
Dear Charles: I knew the answer to the question...I just wanted to see, as a resident of the city, what case an outsider would make for New Orleans. I would...
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John McCusker
ory1886
Jan 28, 2011 1:30 pm
"The detection of the specific sources which account for the differences between the various musics of the African diaspora in the Americas has exercised the...
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patrice.champarou@...
patrice_champ
Jan 28, 2011 1:51 pm
Hello, Sorry to disturb everyone with "admin" matters again, but I have just noticed that the group's welcome message was no longer systematically sent to new...
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Robert
robertgreenw...
Jan 28, 2011 5:21 pm
... Well, of course, I can't know for sure, but might I suggest that Bill Johnson was bowing the bass in order to achieve this effect rather than picking or...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 29, 2011 9:06 am
Hello Robert Thanks. Yes. I think you're right. This is not in Pops, as I misremembered, but is from Louis and is last in Brothers 'In His Own Words'. 'the...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 29, 2011 10:21 am
John Yes, I think we could leave it with Howard's masterly summary but I must add that many, if not most, of 'the pioneers who first played this music',...
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Peter L Reid
reid1947
Jan 29, 2011 11:09 am
Hi all, Thank you to everybody who answered my request re the Webster Hotel, both on line and off line. I shall report in due course my findings when I am in...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jan 29, 2011 12:50 pm
... Absolutely so, Dave. And for what itąs worth, which may not be much, here is my theory of what happened, based on a lifetime of listening to and reading...
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John McCusker
ory1886
Jan 29, 2011 1:50 pm
Preston Jackson recalls the Ory-Oliver band in New Orleans and that Oliver was a "freak" trumpet player meaning he used many tricks like bottles, mutes,...
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John McCusker
ory1886
Jan 29, 2011 1:50 pm
Then you'll probably hate my book on Kid Ory. Ory could indeed be called a Creole in that his father was French and white and his mother was a Creole of color....
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John McCusker
ory1886
Jan 29, 2011 1:56 pm
If Jazz is Creole in origin than why did it take a non-creole, Bolden, to get the ball rolling?   ... From: Howard Rye <howard@...> ...
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John McCusker
ory1886
Jan 29, 2011 3:02 pm
But the Creoles of which generation? The Creoles of Bolden's generation dismissed his music while the Creoles born after 1885, like Keppard, Noone, Morton,...
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Charles Bihun
csintala79
Jan 29, 2011 3:04 pm
Howard, Yes, it is likely that many cooks were involved in making this stew. While championing the importance of one group's contribution over the others...
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Howard Rye
howardrye
Jan 29, 2011 5:05 pm
... Never said it was. What I actually wrote was łNew Orleans Jazz came about when these traditions collided and merged.˛ A collision and merger requires...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 30, 2011 7:08 am
John Thanks for the Jackson and Lala's information. Hand up here for being 'kind of silly' -- on a good day -- but not in this respect. I nowhere opined that...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 30, 2011 8:21 am
John It's nice to read a knowledgeable New Orleanian but it would be easier if you could put your comments on one thread in a single post and also delete the...
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alan504450
Jan 30, 2011 1:37 pm
Hi folks, I managed to get Geoffrey Smith to play a request acknowledging Brian Rust's contribution to the discographical world on Jazz Record Requests on Sat...
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BSGoggin
Jan 30, 2011 8:46 pm
Hi Dave, Thanks for the welcome. You're right about the different environments - and yes the Dixie Syncopators were heavily NO biased with Ory, Simeon, Bigard,...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 31, 2011 10:05 am
Hi Brian I used 'freak' to describe novelty nonsense, like the baby's cry or duwacky. Oliver was possibly the greatest wa-wa player of all-time but I'd be ...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 31, 2011 10:52 am
This comes out of the string bass thread. Pops Foster states that he bought his first tuba in 1921 for the Streckfus steamers and the Gold Whispering Band of...
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ALAN BOND
alan504450
Jan 31, 2011 12:28 pm
Hi Folks, From what I have read and heard over the years it would seem that the brass bass in jazz appeared a lot later than...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 31, 2011 4:10 pm
Hi Alan The brass also had carrying advantage in dancehalls when the bands started getting larger and I think it would have first appeared in this environment....
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 31, 2011 4:47 pm
http://www.hurricanebrassband.nl/Brassband%20Henry%20Allen%20brass%20band.ht m above link to small version of the Allen Brass Band photo which carries date of...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 31, 2011 4:57 pm
So the link does not work as often here -- too long ? The m on the second line has to be added. Try cutting the link, pasting and adding the m or just search...
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David Brown
dvd.brown
Jan 31, 2011 5:06 pm
better -- search Google images with 'Henry Allen Brass Band' and it comes up first. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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ALAN BOND
alan504450
Jan 31, 2011 6:10 pm
Hi Folks, I'm not so sure about the string bass offering greater swing, though it may increase flexibility in a band in some...
