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Re: Stars of Jazz clip 1950's

Author: Fuzzy
Date: 2017-10-26 02:09

Thanks, seabreeze. I feel like I've gotten to know you well enough that I figured you weren't the type to "toot your own horn" so to speak, so I figured I'd better just come right out and ask...I hope it wasn't rude of me to do so. I appreciate your knowledge base so much, and I wanted to be sure I wasn't overlooking any other experience/info you might have pertaining to New Orleans Jazz. I appreciate your reply.

It is hard to believe, but Orange is a guy whom I didn't even know about until YouTube introduced me to him a number of years ago. He came along during a time period of New Orleans music where I somehow overlooked him. The first video I remember seeing of him was in NYC, in some apartment with Eddy Davis and a few others. I think it was from this setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqRKjPSKWbM (Snake Rag)

The NYC trad scene was still just getting underway at the time of this video (In 2008, I had spent three months in NYC doing some unrelated work, and had been pursuing the music - largely unsuccessfully - with the noted exception of the Loose Marbles in Washington Square Park and Vince Giordano's Nighthawks at Sophie's). So, when I returned home, and later found this clip - it was a little disheartening that I had missed such players while I was there!

Of course, I then looked up Orange and learned a lot about him. I have a couple of his newer recordings with Steve Pistorius in addition to some of his older recordings...but I've yet to hear him live.

How cool that Orange described you in that way! Memories like those must surely make one smile from time to time! ;^)>>>

Warmest Regards,
Fuzzy

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