Klarinet Archive - Posting 000671.txt from 1999/11

From: ShawThings@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Jazz Mouthpieces
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 05:56:04 -0500

Franklin,
I think you misunderstood what I was trying to get at and in doing so proved
my point (which I probably didn't state clearly enough).
I've heard Jim Cullum (Jr. - a cornetist) and his band and they're terrific.
But they're not a "Dixieland" band, more of a Jazz repetory company. Just
look at their website (at //www.riverwalk.org) - they list programs
(including tunes and presentation sequences) up to a year in advance. They
play with fabulous guest artists including some great Australians (e.g. Bob
Barnard & Nina Ferro) as well as people like Benny Carter, Clark Terry,
Lionel Hampton and Dick Hyman, none of whom could be identified as
"Dixieland" players. In the past year they've played programs devoted to
styles as diverse as blues, stride piano, early Chicago, boogie woogie, and
individual songwriters like Fats Waller, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, and Hoagy
Carmichael.
(Nobody will ever convince me that Cole Porter was a "Dixieland" songwriter
any more than Billie Holliday was a "Dixieland" singer or Django Rheinhart
was a "Dixieland" guitarist, although the popular perception of "Dixieland"
might have it otherwise.
Anyway, this is getting way off topic, so I'd better stop.
BUT - BTW - did you know that Jim Cullum's dad (Jim Sr.) was a clarinet
player and that he is supposed to have inspired Johnny Mercer to write the
song "Jamboree Jones" in the early 1930s?
Cheers!
Tim Shaw

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