1920s jazz - Frisco Jass Band - Edison Blue Amberol cylinder

[JeterSwisherFan88]

@Jetluffyq8

Me, too. However, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and the like...including Jennifer Lopez and Rebecca Black...have been among the things in music since this century began. Weird, indeed. XD

[mollyjeorgensen]

Jazz requires smoking weed. I don't care what anyone says. It makes it so much better, and it's how it was meant to be listened to and played.

Bong and an old record (or cylinder!) player... the ladies love it, too.

[gmmix]

@mollyjeorgensen - I'm taking your advice under consideration! Thanks for your comment. Stand back, ladies!

[PneumonicFungus]

@mollyjeorgensen

Jazz requires a good time and a happy life. I'm pretty sure none smoked weed in the 1920s.

[brettsterz]

GAY!!!!!!!!!!!

[BadAcidVacation]

@brettsterz You're gay? Cool, good for you man, i guess....

[harajukugrl13131313]

the jazz kinda gives you a deeper of just great music..it tells you of society was at that time through the wild, bouncy music. the piece is beautiful, but i keep thinking of the organizations when listening to this type of music

[Jetluffyq8]

i wish in this century songs would be more like this than weird songs (lady gaga)

[cholocharile]

Needs better quality. Awesome band though.

[Weasil666]

@cholocharile quality didn't get much better than this back then :p

[KawhackitaRag]

This is a pretty nutty recording, and the first theme of the tune itself (a 1917 fox-trot rag by the great Mel B. Kaufman) sounds like a take-off of Henry Lodge's masterful 1915 fox-trot rag "Hill and Dale" which Vess L. Ossman recorded a couple years earlier with his banjo orchestra. Not nearly as wild a recording as this, however!

The sheet music for this can be downloaded for free from the Templeton Sheet Music collection, I believe.

[KawhackitaRag]

I am proud to have played a jazz festival with Dan Levinson and his Canary Cottage Orchestra, perhaps the only band in the world which specializes in re-creating the music of the Frisco Jass Band. Unfortunately, I didn't really do any research to Arnold Johnson before the gig (although he made at least a few piano rolls) and so I ended up sounding more like Charley Straight. Still, it was a 'teens piano style...

[robchalfen]

actually from San Fran - Rudy Wiedoft, alto sax, Buster Johnson - trombone, later with Whiteman (also San Fran)

[patoman881]

This is really good. It makes sense that they formed and performed in New York. Even if they were from California, no self-respecting San Franciscan would name their own band "Frisco" ;-)

[tenorbanjo4]

That's really early jazz ! *****

[KawhackitaRag]

This great fox-trot was composed by Mel B. Kaufman, "king of the rag one-step", who wrote dozens of snappy light raggy instrumentals in the '10s and '20s.

[smurfswacker]

Great recording, even though the band is so wild it seems like it'll descend into chaos any moment. Parts sound a lot like klezmer music.

[fuzzbear6240]

Gmmix, This sounds excellent! I'm very impressed. It's a great tune as well. YF, J.