Gota River JAZZMEN!

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: jazzhistoria
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 01:54 PM

Susan,

There are some numbers which are always requested, like He Touched Me, The Old Rugged Cross and Just a Closer Walk with Thee. I think the average listener prefers well-known songs, while jazz critics and "experts" respond very much to unknown tunes. Our CD "Swedish Hymns" is a good example: The Christian listeners were very delighted to find the old revival songs, which had never been played by jazz bands, and the jazz critics were as much delighted of the same reason!

Ingemar
http://listen.to/gotariver

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 11:12 AM

Ingemar, for what your group does, is it important that the material be familiar to the audience? Do they respond as much for songs they never heard done by the "original" artists?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 11:06 AM

:~)

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: jazzhistoria
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 11:01 AM

The two founder members are the trombone player and the cornet player. Most of us started playing in the late fifties. Our audience then were of the same age as we were - and they still are! Very few young persons listen or play this music. When we made a three weeks tour to England some years ago, people came in wheel-chairs! But they danced in the chairs...

Ingemar

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:46 AM

Ingemar, it's unlikely people seeing this thread will add info you are looking for, so be sure to keep refreshing the other threads.

Maybe a site volunteer will add links to your post above, to the threads for those songs, so that people seeing the request here will help, if they can, in the other threads. That will keep all the song info in one place for each song, which may help someone else later on to add to the picture.

So which are the band members who were there the first time around?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:22 AM

At last, a real Swede! Now we can find out if the Hut Sut Song is gibberish or really Swedish!

RtS

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: jazzhistoria
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 04:52 AM

We will record another religious CD in April and I prepare the liner notes. That´s why I have asked for help with some tunes:

1. Who was May Taylor Roberts? She wrote "Meeting in the air" in 1925. The tune has the same chord structure as "The Swing", later known as "Washington and Lee Swing", recorded by Johnny de Droit the same year, Tiger Rag, Bill Bailey and many others.

2. Bunk Johnson recorded "Yes Lord, I´m Crippled" in 1942, that´s all I know about the tune. Origin??

3. Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux recorded "Because He Remembers Me" in 1933 (reissued on Document DOCD 5326). I don´t know anything about the tune. Help!!

Ingemar
Gota River Jazzmen
http://listen.to/gotariver

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 07:33 PM

Sounds wonderful!! I love Dixieland jazz! Thanks for joining up, Ingemar.

All the best,

kat

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:19 PM

Sounds great, Ingemar! At not at all surprising. Many years ago (in the 60's) I had an album by a wonderful Dixieland Group called the Left Bank Bearcats. That's right... they were from Paris. Who says the French can't swing? They did a wonderful version of Camptown races with a tuba playing the lead.

Sometime in the next year, my wife and I hope to come over to Scandinavia to visit my homeland. Both of my Father's parents were born and raised in Denmark, and I've never been there. Maybe we can catch your group while we're over there.

Danes swing, too.

Why, even England swings..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: jazzhistoria
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 04:12 PM

Believe it or not - 50 years ago two of the present members founded a band called Göta River Jazzmen. It was discontinued after a couple of years, but in 1989 the name was taken up again. We are a New Orleans style band, playing in clubs, at festivals and especially in churches in Sweden and abroad. We will record our 9th CD in April -that´s why I´m looking for information about some tunes!

Gota River (Swedish Göta älv) is Gothenburg´s answer to the Mississippi, and we try to play New Orleans music!

Ingemar
http://listen.to/gotariver

Subject: Gota River JAZZMEN!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Feb 07 - 03:25 PM

When I first saw the new-to-Mudcat membername "gotariver," I just assumed it was "Got a River." Maybe that's because I know a song featuring this line: "I've got peace like a river in my heart."

No, it turns out there IS a Gota River in the home town of what I am coming to realize is a HOT, HOT jazz group. If you have not followed Ingemar's trail to hear them yet, you are really missing a treat:

CLICK NOW to learn more about them and hear some samples.

You won't be sorry!

~Susan