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    Quote Originally Posted by christianm77
    BTW I think it is possible to hear echoes of the trad roles even in much later jazz. Thinking of the Miles quintet.
    And all OVER those great 50's Mingus records.

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    Quote Originally Posted by christianm77
    I was lucky enough to play with some great young players from New Orleans a while back including Aurora Nealand, and when they hit those ensembles it can be really spine tingling. I particularly like the slower minor tunes like St James infirmary and so on. There’s a sort of gothic quality to that music if that you don’t find in later jazz styles.

    I'm with Rob, "Gothic quality" is a good phrase. I know what you mean. Southern literature has often been described as Gothic. (Of course, there's a lot of Gothic lit from distant shores: Rebecca, Dracula, Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, Jekyll & Hyde...)

    So many of the songs are desperately sad and yet hearing them (played that way) makes them happy. Maybe Neil Diamond was right: "When you take the blues and make a song, you sing 'em out again."

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    Quote Originally Posted by christianm77
    BTW I think it is possible to hear echoes of the trad roles even in much later jazz. Thinking of the Miles quintet.
    Ah Leu Cha

    John