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cool.... where can i find the score ?
damiano240991 1 year ago
"Open up that window and let that bad air out"
slackmaster2000 2 years ago
"Let Mr. Bolden play"............
jazznbear 2 years ago
Regarding Funcky Butt - actually this is the precursor to that one, it didn't come after it. The original song, according to the entry on Buddy bolden in Wikipedia (worth reading) was supposedly about farting (!) and so the lyric "I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say/ funky butt butt take it away" and later "open up the window let that bad air out" can be understood from that perspective!
Maybe everybody else already knew this but it was news to me!
didleybopp 3 years ago
How long did it take to learn this?
CBasie2856 3 years ago
Not long but I learned it when I was 15yrs old. I think I first learned it from Jelly Roll's recording.
jazznbear 3 years ago
What marvelous chord augmentations! And changes in time. Those less refined might recognize this theme as coming from Funky Butt. Jelly usually, but not always, took a little space (like a comma)before the word so that "but" would put it in a respectable context.
herrwilhelm 3 years ago
You always add an extra dimension to the history behind the tunes- always appreciated by us and interesting to the general audience. Our goal has been to share America's musical history to a wider audience. How fortunate for those of us who were touched and guided by the originators of this segment of American jazz history.
As you correctly stated- those "changes in time" have come directly from listening to many recordings of Morton where he always reinvented his own music. Thank you!
jazznbear 3 years ago
Regarding Funcky Butt - actually this is the precursor to that one, it didn't come after it. The original song, according to the entry on Buddy bolden in Wikipedia (worth reading) was supposedly about farting (!) and so the lyric "I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say/ funky butt butt take it away" and later "open up the window let that bad air out" can be understood from that perspective!
Maybe everybody else already knew this but it was news to me!
didleybopp 3 years ago