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grasswire

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33. 1939 Morten w/ Sidney Bechet

Reply to DFW (Reply #31)

Wed Apr 11, 2012, 12:03 AM

Apr 2012

and it's still played today -- saw this performance last summer:

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Do you like swing, jazz, music of your Grandmother's life? [View all] grasswire Apr 2012 OP

Thanks for sharing! VenusRising Apr 2012 #1

I love big band and old time jazz Major Nikon Apr 2012 #2

Love Big Band music. Sign of the times, tho..... dimbear Apr 2012 #3

hmmm I can't get enough of Lady Day or Louis Armstrong myself. Justice wanted Apr 2012 #4

GMTA grasswire Apr 2012 #5

WOW talk about 6 degrees of separation. Justice wanted Apr 2012 #6

I like it; my grandma never did. She called it "race music". provis99 Apr 2012 #7

the Nazis hated it too. grasswire Apr 2012 #11

Love this music! DearHeart Apr 2012 #8

That's the music we listen to every day. begin_within Apr 2012 #9

thanks for sharing your memories grasswire Apr 2012 #10

Thank you! begin_within Apr 2012 #14

When I was in the "Stars of Tomorrow" revue on the old Steel Pier in Atlantic City I got to hear monmouth Apr 2012 #16

wow grasswire Apr 2012 #19

It was big in the late '40s, and during the '60s. It was my entree into tv in Philadelphia (The monmouth Apr 2012 #22

I love it all unionworks Apr 2012 #12

I prefer to play it. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #13

I'm a little afraid to ask you what your instrument is. n/t grasswire Apr 2012 #20

I blow sax. HopeHoops Apr 2012 #21

Love it... cyberswede Apr 2012 #15

I am a jazz fanatic KamaAina Apr 2012 #17

I am obliged to clarify grasswire Apr 2012 #18

Well, then, what you're playing isn't Dixieland KamaAina Apr 2012 #23

for the last thirty years... grasswire Apr 2012 #24

Several years ago BrendaBrick Apr 2012 #25

Louis is the god of jazz. grasswire Apr 2012 #29

Yup! BrendaBrick Apr 2012 #32

I am the grandmother. RebelOne Apr 2012 #26

My father made me listen to the Big Bands when I was a kid Bake Apr 2012 #27

You young'uns need a broader perpective DFW Apr 2012 #28

how cool grasswire Apr 2012 #30

I don't even know if her band had a formal name DFW Apr 2012 #31

1939 Morten w/ Sidney Bechet grasswire Apr 2012 #33

Her record had Morton singing solo accompanying himself on the piano DFW Apr 2012 #34

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