[78-L] Good post from fnarf

[Royal Pemberton]

And woe be unto those bands who didn't.  I seem to recall Dizzy
Gillespie (where I read this I can't recall) told of a time, when he
had his bop-fuelled progressive jazz big band in the 1940s, that at a
dance they were playing, someone shouted at them 'Can't you niggers
play no blues?'....

On 4/13/09, David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of my favorite bands of the 1930s, the Harlem Hamfats, devised its blues
> meets jazz formula primarily for records. They played at a Harlem club for
> at least three years, specializing mostly in waltzes and polkas and
> apparently never playing the blues music that they were associated with on
> records. In the rush to appreciate "jazz" it seems we forget that these
> groups played dance music, and as such were all expected to deliver the
> ordinary fare that the dancers wanted in addition to the hot stuff.
>
>
>
> The one James Reese Europe side that is never reissued is "Congratulations
> Waltz," composed by Europe and a very nice side, incidentally.
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
>
>
>
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