Recent content by motherlode

This is the recording whereby Louis Armstrong codified Jazz ~1928. Truly a watershed moment ... Congratulations! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Kft3w-7DI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Blues

I used to listen to June Christy sing this when I was kid. Glad to see this one ...

I've never heard what you did with it. The title alone evokes a memory, so I added a 'sidebar'. Carry on ...

sidebar- I was at a party once and Miles was there, and I was playing this song. When I played G-(maj7) --> E7#9#5 on the top Miles smiled. So, I've been playing it that way ever since, or variations thereof ...

This is a little off topic, but ~1982 I was fortunate to observe Alex North direct the score to "Death of a Salesman" live. The movie was being run on the big screen without the sound. He was very congenial.

The guys used to talk about how Booker Little was dying of Uremia during these recording and that he used to eat ice cream on breaks to try and keep his temperature down. He died the same year of the recording.

Someone wrote: Funny, I don't hear that coming from the composer playing his own music. Perhaps the respondent confused interpretation(s) with the merit of the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALuBvw1_VAc