November 2024 - Paul – and some of that Jazz

From the Record Shelves #323 – The Sidewalks of New York – There is much music from Raymond Burke on the CD, and I love that, but there are also a couple of numbers from a for me less known clarinet player. Irvine “Pinky” Vidacovich can be heard on the classic recordings of New Orleans Owls (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #71 – Embraceable You – Today I felt like reviving another one of my favorite tunes. There are so many recordings of this George Gershwin classic to be inspired by—too many to mention, and I thought it was enough for now to just do a vocal and a cornet chorus (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #322 – Dear Old Southland – Here we have a clarinet duet by the great Albert Nicholas and his disciple John Defferary. I met John about 15 years ago when we happened to play alongside each other in a parade at a jazz festival. He faintly remembered that we had also played (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #70 – Sing You Sinners – This song was composed by W. Franke Harling, with lyrics by Sam Coslow in 1930. As you see on the sheet cover, it was also featured in a movie later called “I’ll Cry Tomorrow.” (The film has a fine original jazz score beside this.) It has a rather dramatic verse (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #321 – I’m Coming Virginia – Johnny Hyman, better known as Johnny Wiggs (1899–1977), started to play cornet at an early age and became professional playing in different bands in his hometown New Orleans after 1925. He chose, however to become a teacher of other things (…) read more and listenread more and listen

Musikunderhållning med Kiki & Paul. Måndag 9 december kl. 14:00 på Trivselpunkten, Pilegården, Torget 7 245 31 Staffanstorp (…) view eventMusikunderhållning med Kiki & Paul. Måndag 9 december kl. 14:00 på Trivselpunkten, Pilegården, Torget 7 245 31 Staffanstorp

Musikunderhållning med Kiki & Paul, tisdag 20 november 2024 kl. 14:00, på Bykrogen, Centrumstigen 4, 245 62 Hjärup (…) view eventMusikunderhållning med Kiki & Paul, tisdag 20 november 2024 kl. 14:00, på Bykrogen, Centrumstigen 4, 245 62 Hjärup

From the Record Shelves #320 – It Was So Beautiful – Sometime around the shift of millenniums, the sound engineer Ted Kendall made new and good transfers of Django Reinhardt recordings for the British label JSP. Here we have volume four in the series containing, among others, a session from September 1935 (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Studio #69 – Nobody’s Sweetheart – Today I play and sing a song from 1935 that was recorded by Bing Crosby, Red Allen, and Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday that same year. It’s by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by the American poet Dorothy Parker (1893–1967). I give you the lyrics here: (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #319 – Stomp Your Stuff – State Street Ramblers had recorded with Roy Palmer on trombone and Darnell Howard on clarinet, but here they have to do without them, and if you can trust Rust “Jazz Records” discography, it’s just the trio of the rhythm section that we hear (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #318 – Dardanella – Coinciding with WW1, let’s say between 1915 and 1920, oriental types of songs were popular, and this is one of them, published by Fred Fisher in 1919. He also wrote the lyrics, but they are seldom used. When Paul Whiteman took it up about ten years later, he assigned it (…) read more and listenread more and listen

From the Record Shelves #317 – Nobody but My Baby – It says “Louis Armstrong’s Original Washboard Beaters” on the label. So, what was going on here? Did they try to capitalize on Armstrong’s growing fame in Europe? Was it no mistake, just a way of selling more copies? Well, it might have been the (…) read more and listenread more and listen