May 10
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Dippermouth Blues — South Frisco Jazz Band This was recorded at the one of the concerts for members of the Toronto Classic Jazz Society on December 3 1995. As vice- president of this society I had suggested to engage this wonderful band for one of our concerts. I had known the musicians for many years especially when meeting at the different jazz festivals throughout the USA. The band follows a strict style of early jazz. They have followed Clarence Williams, Oliver, Armstrong and Morton’s recordings from the twenties and early thirties and they are the prime American band to continue in the footsteps of revivalists Lu Watters and Turk Murphy in the forties and fifties. South Frisco had its beginnings in 1956 and has become one of the oldest bands in the USA still playing here in the late nineties. This band uses the original recordings as a sample but keep their own fire and ideas as a result of their talent fully alive. Here they play King Oliver’s Dippermouth Blues. Leon Oakley (cn), Dan Comins (cn) , Mike Baird (cl,) , Jim Snyder ™ , Rob Rhodes (pn) , Vince Saunders (bj) , Bob Rann (tu) , Lloyd Byassee (dm)
I really enjoyed this video, I’m not sure what a previous comment about it being ragged was about as I have no musical ability. I just liked it!
Also I like a jazz band that gives everybody in the band a solo spot!
I haven’t heard this band before bit I am glad I found it.
great rendition of the song really enjoyed that
I even can see all the nice girls and boys dancing with their feet up at unisono…
loved them!! and you are right, our generation’s cartoons had musical backgrounds of this wonderful music….classy eh!
Ragged ensemble but otherwise quite enjoyable.
it reminds me of a really really old disney cartoon =D