East St Louis Toodle Oo - Portena Jazz Band 1972

[MartinJel]

This music is imitative not creative so no wonder it doesn't have the vigor and freshness of the originals. That said, I'd rather hear this band's efforts that most any rock or rap

[albertsystem]

Hey!! José Ignacio "El Negro" Mazzanti al saxo soprano, si señor!!

[chalagee]

Viva los porteños en Porteña Jazz Band. And Boo! to the 'I'm not trying to dump' guy (baldevis). Has it ever occurred to you that recording techniques may have contributed to the 'refined' sound in over 40 years of technical progress?

[baldevis]

I'm not trying to dump on this particular band or anything, I just happened on this video by chance. But it feels to me like most of the more modern recreations of 1920s style jazz are just too refined and professional-sounding as compared to the original black groups of the 1920s. It seems like they can't even help it, but it comes off sounding too smooth, refined, relaxed, and a bit bland. There's a raw energy and rough quality that's just missing.

[hotandblackband]

buenisimo hermano!!!!!!!Hot and Black Band

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[rickjolley]

This band almost always does a "dogfight" for the last chorus. (How you say that in Espanol?)

Really neat for a "big" trad band, aren't they?

[radcam69]

"pelea de perros" would be dogfight.

[Shieksghost]

Such as shame, not a single Bari player, and I could have sworn this song was mainly a Bari sax feature, for a good part of it anyway. D: