Old Fashioned Love - Vancouver Hot Five 1999
- 16 years ago
Old Fashioned Love - Vancouver Hot Five 1999
I learned this tune years ago from the 1923 Sidney Bechet recording with Clarence Williams Blue Five, which was a beautiful classic jazztune. I was pleased to find out that our reedplayer Lloyd Arntzen, who spent his live as a folksinger, early style reedman, ( clarinet: Dodds, sop.sax: Bechet) and schoolteacher liked to sing this tune. When our surprise guest Simon Stribling joined the band for this set, you’ll hear us playing our two cornets. First behind Lloyd’s vocal with the cornets in the background ( 4 bars Simon, 4 bars me, etc. ) after that Simon take a full chorus. probably one of the nicest I heard from him, this followed by a vere sensitive solo on sop. sax by Lloyd.
Too bad that our little band was only together for very few public performances, we mainly enjoyed ourselves during impromptu rehearsal sessions. Great and always reliable sousaphone work by Steve Toren. Pianist Alan Matheson, who is basically a professional jazz trumpetist, enjoyed himself to be part of our band as a member of the rhythm group. I specially liked banjoist Bill Dixon, who is my favourite because of his tone, his rhythmic timing and overall feel. He has been around. In his youth in England he was already so good that he became the first banjoist of the Kenny Ball Band. I, Bob Erwig was just happy to be part of such a great team.
This performance was a first, a one only of this tune during the 1999 Vancouver Jazz Festival. They made room for our band to play one set only. I’m glad I was able to catch all of that on my little mini disc recorder with the single Sony microphone
I learned this tune years ago from the 1923 Sidney Bechet recording with Clarence Williams Blue Five, which was a beautiful classic jazztune. I was pleased to find out that our reedplayer Lloyd Arntzen, who spent his live as a folksinger, early style reedman, ( clarinet: Dodds, sop.sax: Bechet) and schoolteacher liked to sing this tune. When our surprise guest Simon Stribling joined the band for this set, you’ll hear us playing our two cornets. First behind Lloyd’s vocal with the cornets in the background ( 4 bars Simon, 4 bars me, etc. ) after that Simon take a full chorus. probably one of the nicest I heard from him, this followed by a vere sensitive solo on sop. sax by Lloyd.
Too bad that our little band was only together for very few public performances, we mainly enjoyed ourselves during impromptu rehearsal sessions. Great and always reliable sousaphone work by Steve Toren. Pianist Alan Matheson, who is basically a professional jazz trumpetist, enjoyed himself to be part of our band as a member of the rhythm group. I specially liked banjoist Bill Dixon, who is my favourite because of his tone, his rhythmic timing and overall feel. He has been around. In his youth in England he was already so good that he became the first banjoist of the Kenny Ball Band. I, Bob Erwig was just happy to be part of such a great team.
This performance was a first, a one only of this tune during the 1999 Vancouver Jazz Festival. They made room for our band to play one set only. I’m glad I was able to catch all of that on my little mini disc recorder with the single Sony microphone