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I've been digging Slim Gaillard's guitar/piano playing as well as the Nat King Cole Trio with Oscar Moore lately. When I'm not in my head about "serious" jazz listening, I really enjoy light-hearted tunes like Slim & Slam's Jump Session and Slim's Laguna. And from the Nat King Cole Trio's I Like To Riff and Are You Fer It. Hit That Jive and Frim Fram Sauce, too. Anybody get hooked on fun/corny/cheesy jazz numbers once in awhile?
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10-02-2018 03:44 PM
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love that slim g jive..slim & slam...great stuff...check out babs gonalez, the mills brothers, fats waller & harry the hipster gibson
cheers
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Originally Posted by neatomic
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I remember seeing Slam Stewart (The Singing Bassman) play "Flat Foot Floogie With The Floy Floy" back in the late 70's which I think is a Slim Gaillard tune.
Does that qualify?
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Blossom and Mose each had a brand of humor that was a big part of their musical persona that I always enjoyed.
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Not jazz, I know, but I classic novelty record.
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Yea, the times when jazz had some good rhythm to it... Here's the song about myself
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Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
It's a classic!
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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Originally Posted by neatomic
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Originally Posted by Steven Herron
Of course!! I would've enjoyed seeing him or Slim Gaillard live. It would've been something else to see them both as their hep duo!
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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I love this stuff. (And country novelty tunes too, but that's another subject.)
Rhythm changes (and related vamps) seem to be the backing for many such tunes.
Blues and boogie-woogie too.
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Wow, that Long John Baldry clip brought me back. Used to love that tune, and even caught LJB performing in a small church in New York City back around 1970. (I didn't question at the time what the hell LJB was doing performing in a church, but I certainly am now.)
When my brother and I were kids, we used to crack up over a collection of 78 rpm records we inherited from some uncle or other, which had such great tunes as Louis Jordan's "Open the Door, Richard," Mary Clooney singing "C'mon-a My House," and somebody or other singing "Miami Beach Rhumba" (a tune, as best I can recall, about someone starting out to go to Cuba [back when it was legal!] and somehow ending up in Miami Beach). But it was "Open the Door, Richard," that really got us the most.
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that baldry cut actually got some local nyc airplay at the time...it was deemed as a bit of a comeback...long john was the namesake of elton john
combination of long john and great saxman elton dean
and now for something completely different- here's babs
cheers
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These guys always seemed like they were having a helluva lot of fun, and they could really play. The dancing was the thing. A lot of Western Swing (and bluegrass and folk and blues) tunes have silly lyrics.
Hotclub of Cowtown's Whit Smith is a fine guitarist.
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Here's 4 or 5 Times, sung by not the greatest singer of all times. One of the greatest clarinetists, though. And if it ain't jazz, then I don't know jazz.
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"Four or Five Times" was originally a black song, a hit for Jimmy Lunceford, iirc, though recorded by many.
On the other hand, western swingster Hank Penny wrote and first recorded Wynonie Harris's huge r&b hit "Don't Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at Me." Cincinnati-based King Records had strong rosters of both CW and RB artists and frequently cross-fertilized.
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