”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 #331
Perdido
LP Jazz Society AA 526/527
As a youngster, I heard both Basie and Ellington performing live here in Malmö, Sweden. They and other visiting orchestras were a great inspiration, and as a result, we’ve had and still have a number of efficient big bands, and I’ve listened to a few. But, though I’m not an expert in the matter, it doesn’t come as a surprise if I say that I’ve never heard something like this.
The double LP is a great production of a live recording from 1954 in Stockholm, and Leif Anderson, who wrote the liner notes, tells us, among other things, about the excitement when it became known that Count Basie was to appear in the country:
”A generation of jazz fans had grown up on his music. For most of us, he was the epitome of swing. To see and to hear him could be nothing but a revelation.”
And he also says, “The Count Basie Band of the mid-Fifties was another one of those once-and-forever-but-never-again phenomena, like Duke in 1940, Lunceford in 1937, Henderson in 1934, Herman in 1945, or Basie himself in 1938.”
It was the Count’s first European visit.
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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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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