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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 Studio #9

That’s How I Feel About You

I came to like this tune. There is no well-known recording of it.

Here my new mute came to good use. Last autumn I tried some different ones in a shop in Paris. In the end I bought the one that is still made under the patented name “Harmon”. It was a guy called Paddy Harmon that constructed it in the 1920s, and it had a huge success among trumpet players. I think it was Jack Purvis who was the first to use it with the stem taken out for melody presentation, the way I do it here. Later on, Miles Davis did a lot of solo work with basically this sound using the same method.

Of course, with a bit of a negative attitude you could easily dismiss the lyrics as stupid and impossible to sing, but I think that when it’s a love song anything is allowed, and when you’ve just fallen in love you are stupid. You may even think that you could take down the moon!

If you said “go and get the moon”
I'd go right out and get the moon
That's how I feel about you, sweetheart.
Believe me 

No matter what the task may be
I'll do just what you ask of me
That's how I feel about you, sweetheart.

Is there no way I can prove my great love for you
Just as you say, come what may,
I will see it thru
For you dear

If I can't have you for my own
I'd rather go thru life a-one
That's how I feel about you, sweetheart.

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

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