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Thread #46005   Message #2957395
Posted By: GUEST,Doc John
03-Aug-10 - 01:04 PM
Thread Name: Kid Ory--The Jazz Original
Subject: RE: Kid Ory--The Jazz Original
How lucky to have see Kid Ory: I was just that bit too young to be let out! I had to be contented with Chris Barber. We collected the records though: this was 'proper' jazz not that Dave Brubeck stuff - far too middle class parlour music it seems in those days. We used to wonder how all those old men could play this frantic music; they don't look quite so old now but they were hardly spring chickens. I always admire Kid Ory for not selling out when the the New Orleans Jazz became less popular, not giving way to saxes etc. At the time he wasn't to know the New Orleans Revival would happen. Pity Johnny Dodds died so young.