More from Episode Three:
The first Jazz scat. Armstrong says his music score fell off the stand so he just improvised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmGt2U-xTE
Sad story of Bix Beiderbecke. Shows that segregation cut both ways. Had to jam with Louis behind locked doors.
Artie Shaw had some interesting comments about the near absurdity(my word), of trying to get sounds from his head out of a piece of wood with holes drilled in it. "Rarely happened, but when it did, it was better than sex!"
Might have been what the guys in Nica's book meant when they said "I wish I could play what's in my head" Could the instrument be the main obstacle in music?
Dramatic shots of the Mississippi river flood in 1927. Down there it's called '27 highwater'. My mom loaded sandbags on the levee.
Shows how much the instruments themselves have changed over the years. The trumpets seemed much longer in length. Some HUGE saxophones. A man could crawl in the bell.
Cheers
The first Jazz scat. Armstrong says his music score fell off the stand so he just improvised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmGt2U-xTE
Sad story of Bix Beiderbecke. Shows that segregation cut both ways. Had to jam with Louis behind locked doors.
Artie Shaw had some interesting comments about the near absurdity(my word), of trying to get sounds from his head out of a piece of wood with holes drilled in it. "Rarely happened, but when it did, it was better than sex!"
Might have been what the guys in Nica's book meant when they said "I wish I could play what's in my head" Could the instrument be the main obstacle in music?
Dramatic shots of the Mississippi river flood in 1927. Down there it's called '27 highwater'. My mom loaded sandbags on the levee.
Shows how much the instruments themselves have changed over the years. The trumpets seemed much longer in length. Some HUGE saxophones. A man could crawl in the bell.
Cheers