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”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 #202

Rose of Washington Square

LP Commodore Classics 6.25490 AG

Milt Gabler had a record shop since 1926 in Manhattan, across the street from the Commodore Hotel. In the thirties, he sold mostly reissues of the jazz classics from the 1920s, and one day he said to Eddie Condon: “I’ve been thinking of making some records myself, under my own label. Most of the men who played on the discs are still available. Why can’t we get them together and make some new ones?

His company, Commodore Records, was started in 1938. Pee Wee Russell played on sessions with Condon and Wild Bill Davison, and also did a couple as the leader of a trio and a quartet.

His clarinet style, as is said on the liner notes, can be described by the words, “Notes like rusty nails one minute, notes of piping lyricism the next.”

I’ve chosen a tune that, besides being a concentrated and swinging performance by all, shows that he improvised more horizontally than clarinet players tend to do, using only a part of the instrument’s register, like if he were playing a trumpet. And I hear inspiration in the phrasing from Bix Beiderbecke who Pee Wee played with in St. Louis in the middle of the 1920s. Jess Stacy is on piano, Sid Weiss on bass, and George Wettling on drums in this New York, 1944, session.

Radioprogram (Swedish):

Radio Swingtime 100 – 1 november 2002

MY PRETTY GIRL - Radio Swingtime 100MY 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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Latest CD:

New Sensational CD with Narcisse Jazz Band

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New Paul and His Gang CD:

Paul and His Gang – new CD Live in USA and Canada

Paul and His Gang 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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“Remembering” CD

remembering_front I’m proud to present a new double-CD in co-operation with jazzarkivet. The production is a retrospective collection of recordings and presents two of my most successful bands, Scaniazz (CD 1) and The Absalon Orchestra (CD 2), covering the period from 1975 until 1988 (…) continue readingRemembering CD

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