[78-L] October 22nd 78 session

[Malcolm Rockwell]

I too was going to mention Fletcher Henderson as well as another of my 
favorites, Bennie Moten. Both are unique in their own rights and happily 
so. Looks to be a fine large Black jazz band weekend!
Malcolm

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On 10/23/2014 1:52 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 10/23/2014 3:43 PM, Iñigo Cubillo wrote:
>> Malcolm: You will enjoy them. Ellington is very special... DIfficult for us
>> who are so used to the music of such a long period as 1925-1945. I believe
>> we tend to mix things... in the sense of loosing the originality of some. Have you ever
>> compared Ellington to any other jazz band of the same period? He always sounds so
>> different, so original... Nobody dared to imitate that sound... Perhaps those black bands
>> of the V-38000s as Fess Wiliams and others? I have never listened to them, bu I will bid
>> that Ellington eclipsed them all.
>>
>>
> I don't think it would be fair to compare. There was a wonderful
> collision between musical style, technology and the emergence of race
> music as mainstream at that time. Like rock in the 60's-70's even white
> bands wanted to sound black. But Ellington was the leader. And of
> course, there was Henderson.
>
> There was a freshness to the music of  the late 20's that suddenly died
> with the depression and the emergence of smooth sound, the beginning of
> the swing era. One signature was the exodus of banjo.
>
> On another subject, but related, I noted a while back that certain Paul
> Specht/Georgians Columbia Vivas are bringing good money right now. They
> all seem to be Ahola/Calabrese era, 1926-early '28. Too bad, because
> those are the ones I have been after. Spechts before and after are
> almost worthless. Listen to them and you will agree that they are the
> most exciting of Specht's material, except for some Guarente sides.
>