”That jazz” is referring to a miracle in music that happened in the beginning of 1900s when people from a big variation of ethnical and cultural background inspired each other to play in a new fashion. Luckily all this coincided with the development of new inventions like the phonograph recordings, photography and film so that it became in part documented and still can be enjoyed today. In my early teens I happened to be exposed to ”that jazz” and it struck a string deep within me that has kept vibrating ever since.
Paul Bocciolone Strandberg
NEW Series: From the Studio and From the Record Shelves
Today’s Tune:
From the Record Shelves #328
The Things That Were Made for Love
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”Hot dance music,” such as this, means approximately three minutes of an attractive melody played in a good dance rhythm and blended with or at least spiced with improvised jazz. One can only wish that such a mixture in popular music would have survived the 1920s. In reality it didn’t, maybe because the majority preferred one or the other or simply because it became easier to market the music by genre.
In this example by Paul Specht and his Orchestra, we get the spice of muted trumpet, eight bars of improvised tenor sax, and a few bars of a jazzy trombone in the first chorus. After a vocal trio, we hear an arranged swinging brass section and some high register clarinet improvisation before the tenor sax returns and the orchestra plays ”tutti” until the final cymbal crash.
Though some important musicians have passed through the Specht Orchestra over the years, there are no memorable names in this 1929 lineup where most of the participants remain unknown. Still, there is very good musicianship to be enjoyed, and the studio engineers who recorded it also did a very good job.
Radioprogram (Swedish):
Radio Swingtime 100 – 1 november 2002
MY PRETTY GIRL – Nu är vi framme vid det näst sista avsnittet i denna unika radioprogramserie. Vi gläds åt livaktig jazz från New Orleans med Oliver Naylor och Halfway House Orchestra, vi njuter av Fletcher Hendersons fina orkester med arrangemang av (…) lyssna på radioprogramlyssna på Radio Swingtime 100
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Sensational CD with Narcisse Jazz Band
Melodious jazz inspired by the irresistible sound and pulse of the 1920’s. Buy at $10.00 (+shipping) (…) view the CDMore about Narcisse CD
Paul and His Gang – new CD Live in USA and Canada
Paul and his Gang was founded in Malmoe, Sweden by Paul Bocciolone Strandberg in 1990. At the most prestigious jazz festival for “old style jazz” in Breda, Holland they won the first prize in 1992. Their genuine interpretations of early jazz created an interest also in the US where (…) view the CDMore about Paul and His Gang CD Live in USA and Canada
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