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Tag Archives: call and response
Great for Dancing, Not for Filing: The Hot Dance Effect
“Hot dance” has always seemed like a polite way to say “old music with horns that isn’t jazz, but still has balls.” Like every other era in American music, the twenties had its share of bland, banal and ruthlessly commercial … Continue reading
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Tagged Jazz, hot dance, Stan KIng, jazz age, California Ramblers, stock arrangements, call and response, pop of yestercentury, Golden Gate Orchestra, difference between jazz and pop, old music with horn that isn't jazz, still has balls, sonic wallpaper, Glad Rag Doll, lost films, Nat Shilkret, doctoring the stock, Frank Cush, Sam Ruby, Al Duffy, chase chorus, Carl Orech, Harold Marcus, twenties sax style, speakeasy
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No, Really, Please “Hold That Tiger”
“If you can’t say something nice, put it on a blog” often seems like the new conventional wisdom. This particular piece of web attempts to explain what’s great, rather than wallow in conjecture over what misses some imaginary mark. Yet … Continue reading
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Tagged 1917, 1931, arpeggio, Benny Carter, big bands, Bix Beiderbecke, Bobby Stark, Brian Rust, call and response, clarinet, Claude Jones, Coleman Hawkins, Connie's Inn, contrafacts, Crown records, Dixieland, Fletcher Henderson, glissandi, Great Depression, great jazz records, I Got Rhythm, Jazz, jazz records, john kirby, Louis Armstrong, missed chances, onomatopoeia, Original Dixielan Jazz Band, Phil Schapp, Rhythm changes, riff, Roseland Ballroom, Russell Procope, Russell Smith, sax soli, straw hats, suspenders, Swing Era, tenor sax, Tiger Rag, tired musicians, Tom Lord Jazz Discography, trombone, trumpet, vibrato, Wolverines
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