INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY
April 30 is INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY. Mistermuse could write a book about jazz, but many books have already been authored by jazz writers more authoritative than he, so mistermuse will settle for doing a post — and on this post, he has a chick who can sing a lick here, scat a lick there, wing a lick everywhere:
You may think that’s hotter than a chicken wing or a pig on a spit — but here’s a cat who can scat too, and when he blows his bugle, he’s even….
Is your computer smoking yet? We don’t want to alarm the Firehouse brigade, so before your pc bursts into a
….let’s do one number more and stop at four, because….
The Observation Post 
calmkate 2:25 am on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
ah you managed to warm my heart on a cold wet winters day!
Thanks Mr M … everyday should be jazz day 😎
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mistermuse 8:38 am on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
An apple a day may keep the doctor away
But jazz every day keeps the blues at bay.
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calmkate 7:32 pm on April 30, 2020 Permalink
lol could be why I seldom feel blue!
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blindzanygirl 3:37 am on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
Wonderful
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mistermuse 8:46 am on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
You ain’t so bad yourself, bzg! 😉
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blindzanygirl 9:03 am on April 30, 2020 Permalink
Thanks 😀 i love your music
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masercot 12:05 pm on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
I’m curious. Have you heard this band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPAgGGf28o0&list=PLvJVkchY7jrZYlc8DXHJDNJLf_m8si3vj
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mistermuse 2:59 pm on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks for the link. Haven’t heard that version, but I know the song — it was recorded by the great Bessie Smith in 1928. I love the vocal on your clip — who is the vocalist?
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masercot 3:30 pm on April 30, 2020 Permalink
Jessy Carolina.
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Don Ostertag 12:22 pm on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
gives me an excuse to play my jazz collection, as if I needed an excuse. Bit of trivia – Firehouse 5 had a day job. The were animators for Disney.
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mistermuse 3:18 pm on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
Thank you, Don. Actually, I did know about the Disney connection. I own a few of their record albums, and the notes on one of them say that band founder trombonist Ward Kimball and tin whistle player Walt Kelly (of Pogo fame) first met at Disney Studios in 1934. They’re not my fav Dixieland band, but I still enjoy listening to them.
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annieasksyou 7:32 pm on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
Who says that’s a plenty? I wouldn’t my have minded several more. And a Happy International Jazz Day to you, mistermuse. Sure glad I got to this today; otherwise it wouldn’t have had the same cachet.
And that chick Ella (my feathers were a little ruffled by your so naming her til the song began): anyone who can elevate a children’s nursery rhyme to art…well, she’s one cool scat.
Such delight!
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mistermuse 10:51 pm on April 30, 2020 Permalink |
it was a feather in my cap, not only to have found the Ella clip, but the clip which is my favorite of the four: HOTTER THAN THAT. The “cat who can scat” in that recording is of course Louis Armstrong, and I’ve never heard him scat better than he does starting one minute and twenty seconds into the clip. It doesn’t get any hotter than that!
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annieasksyou 8:15 am on May 1, 2020 Permalink
At a high school reunion years ago, I was talking with the guy who was my senior prom date. He insisted that after the dance, we went into New York and saw Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. I was appalled at myself: how could I have NO recollection of such a significant event? Just months ago, I found an old scrapbook I’d made (we did that in those days), and I’d written how awful my date was and noted the performers we’d seen: much lesser lights than those two musical giants.
I shall revisit your Satch video to see if I’ll be further tickled by his scats.
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mistermuse 8:54 am on May 1, 2020 Permalink
Thanks for that interesting remembrance.
For decades, I’ve owned well over a dozen Louis LPs, at least one of which includes HOTTER THAN THAT….and I’M appalled at myself that I didn’t recollect how great his scatting was on that 1920s recording (until I found the video). Of course, he was at the peak of his creative power (both playing and scatting) back then, and that was only one of many unbelievable performances, so I suppose I should forgive myself for forgetting one of them.
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annieasksyou 9:01 am on May 1, 2020 Permalink |
Right—I think we both have to stop being appalled at ourselves…
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Elizabeth 6:32 pm on May 1, 2020 Permalink |
It would have been wonderful to have had Ella as a grandmother entertaining us with that version. I wonder what she could do with the other standard nursery rhymes.
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mistermuse 12:11 am on May 2, 2020 Permalink |
Wonder no more, Elizabeth. As a matter of fact, her first big hit record was a song she co-wrote in 1938 based on the nursery rhyme A-TISKET A-TASKET. Here, she sings it in a clip from the 1942 Abbot & Costello film RIDE ‘EM COWBOY:
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Elizabeth 4:41 pm on May 2, 2020 Permalink
Thanks.
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moorezart 9:19 pm on May 1, 2020 Permalink |
Reblogged this on From 1 Blogger 2 Another.
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mistermuse 12:14 am on May 2, 2020 Permalink |
Moorezart for more jazz, and more jazz for moorezart. I dig it!
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Silver Screenings 10:14 pm on May 4, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks for including that great scene from Ball of Fire! 🙂
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mistermuse 11:28 pm on May 4, 2020 Permalink |
Any scene with Barbara Stanwyck is a pleasure to watch — though I must say (when it comes to screwball comedies) that I liked THE LADY EVE (with her and Henry Fonda) better than BALL OF FIRE.
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Silver Screenings 8:39 am on May 5, 2020 Permalink
Agreed. I prefer The Lady Eve, too. Stanwyck is perfectly cast in that film – I can’t imagine anyone else in that role.
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America On Coffee 8:49 pm on May 18, 2020 Permalink |
I love jazz covers today which are going in many directions and genre incorporations. I wonder too,if Scat is the grandparent of rap…🤔
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lorraineanne 11:10 am on May 20, 2020 Permalink |
this is amazing~ thank you for sharing.
If you get a chance, I’d really appreciate if you can check out my music/ art blog.
It would mean a lot!
https://thehighsnlows.com
lo
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mistermuse 12:47 pm on May 20, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks for the comment. I read your latest (Jazz Festivals) post, but currently have too much on my plate to read more. At this point, I can only say I liked what I saw and will try to check out a few more of your posts when I have time.
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