Solar Bell

I don't recall seeing this one on TM

Louis and Dizzy playing and singing together.

YouTube - Dizzy Gillespie & Louis Armstrong - Umbrella Man

Enjoy!

-cw-

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Bob Odneal

I believe that is the only video of the 2 greats playing together! Classic! I was luck enough to meet both!

Here is the autograph I got from Pops!

http://members.tripod.com/bobodneal/louis.jpg

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Manny Laureano

YouTube - Clifford Brown on Soupy Sales TV Show

Is it just me or does anybody else hear a very clear connection between the approaches of Clifford Brown and Louis Armstrong? What grabbed me was that the melody of both songs is never gone no matter what Brown plays. If you know the tunes you can hear them clear as day between the notes of the improv he creates. I always found that to be the case with Pops when I'd hear him blow choruses; the melody was always there. Although the method is different, the approach, to me, is startingly similar.

ML

Tootsall

I think that comment would go well in the thread about jazz and jazz education! To me, that's the essence of what I consider "good jazz" vs "technical exercises".... is there a melody? OK, I'm not an "educated jazz listener"... but when the music disappears and the sound becomes more of a "technical exercise" to the extent that it sounds like noise I lose all interest.

Solar Bell

Great answers Manny and Ed!

There was a real "art" in playing within the song and the context of the song's message.

That's why I am usually hopelessly lost in the big bands of the thirties and forties; The solos "fit" the tunes.

Louis is a great example. Louis' favorite trumpet player, by his admision was Bunny Berigan. Listen to Bunny's solos, always in the context and feel of the music.

His solos in tunes like Marie and Song Of India were so well constructed that if you do the tunes now and put in your own solo people are disappointed.

Roy Eldrige, Ziggy Elman, Harry James, and many others really played things that made you just sit back and enjoy!

At the last ITG conference there were many VERY, VERY GOOD players at the jam sessions.

The phrase chormatic searching was used a lot.

A s good as they were, I was thrilled when Pat Harbison came up, joined in and played MELODICALLY!

I would like teachers to try and instill this in their jazz students rather than have them play a bunch of gobbledygook.

Then again, maybe I just don't get jazz, that is possible too.

-cw-

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