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Re: Pete Fountain Funeral will be August 17, 2016

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-08-13 08:08

The students might enjoy listening to Fountain play the blues. To the memory of both Irving Fazola and Leon Ropollo is Fountain's rendition of "Five Point Blues."

The playing here--with special attention to the "stop time cadence" from 1:50 to 2:10--is strictly to the New Orleans manner born; no Goodman influence in this one--all Lorenzo Tio, Barney Bigard, Irving Fazola, Ropollo, and many named and forgotten others who created that style marching up and down the cobblestones of Rampart St in the first decades of the 20th century:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+five+point+blues.

Post Edited (2016-08-13 08:13)

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