[78-L] Rock & Roll rising (was: Escott, was Arnold Covey)

[Milan Milovanovic]

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From: "eugene hayhoe" <jazzme48912 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Rock & Roll rising (was: Escott, was Arnold Covey)


> Joe, all I was getting at was that slap bass was not rare by the 1920s on 
> record, and 'who knows?' when it started 'live.'
>
>
> What I don't get is how THOUSANDS of musicians, in cities all over the 
> country were playing music like this
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3FNLnFg6Ck
>
> by the late 1940s and 'it wasn't rock & roll yet' because it wasn't made 
> by and for 'whites.'


It is interesting that tenor man is under the hard influence of Lester Young 
or Illinois Jacquet...