Funky Butt - The Buddy Bolden Project of Humphrey Lyttleton

[TxHarp]

Check out book IN SEARCH OF BUDDY BOLDEN- Incredible story that 1st got me involved. They said you could hear his horn clear across Lake Pontchartrain. That would be over 25 miles. I think this is part of the myth too- but I think he did play loud. I'd bet he played soft too.

[ggmann13]

I typed "butt fragment" into the search, first video.

[mkiemele]

Thanks for the vid and music. This tune is startling similar to the St Louis Tickle by Charles Lamb (I think).

[PalabraViva3]

Back in those days, more then than now, things like "blew the valves right off his horn" was a way to express the gravity of what was being said. Metaphors.

[bixntram]

trumpet player here. You can't blow the valves off your horn. Just take a good look at a trumpet some time.

[santopec]

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008)

[eric33190]

sounds pretty much like the storyville collective jazz feel, but the guy impersoning bolden didn't play like bolden. It was told that NOBODY could play as loud as bolden, and even one day he blew the valves right off his horn.

[santopec]

I don't think Bolden blew that loud. His band had a guitar!!!!.

His loudness is a myth IMO.

[eric33190]

@santopec well I suppose everything about bolden is a myth. it's fun to think about though..

[santopec]

I agree Eric!

[eric33190]

the fact that he's so celebrated still to this day and has basically no record that he really existed besides like 1 photo. just people talkin and playin

[RL36D]

yer right. i was wrong on the title because i

was on the comments page.

but to favorably compare this video to marsalis

is well, a waste of breath that could be better

spent puffing up the tires of that no-lip brit.

[santopec]

The video shows an attempt to reconstruct the pre-jazz sound of the Bolden band. That's all!!

Lyttleton researched the scarce historical facts (oral history, the famous photo etc.) for that purpose.

Well, IOM the result is rather plausible.

I'm very interested in other attempts in this direction on Youtube.

[RL36D]

what amazing research! he copied note for note

what my old fake book says. Typing. again,

if you want to hear the song more like bolden

would play it, then marsalis is more on the

right track. buddy bolden blues is funky butt.

louis bluey also used to sing it.

[santopec]

Your fake book gives you the lead party, not the way the 2 clarinets and the valve trombone etc. should play.

Please let me hear the Marsalis interpretation.

[tommymacdonald]

Yeah, although I think calling it "pre-jazz" is a bit contradictory. It's really more like origins of jazz.

[santopec]

"the origin of jazz" yeah that sounds good in this Darwin year!!

[harryoakley]

I had the great privilege of playing, on two occasions, with "that no-lip Brit" who actually had an excellent embouchure, was a kind and warm Gentleman and certainly not less talented than Winton Marsalis.

[RL36D]

hey, dolt. i was referring to the 'related

video' right across from this steaming pile

titled 'marsalis plays funky butt'.

i guess you're as blind as you are deaf.

[RL36D]

i've got a few rude words for this this ass

version of this classic.

[santopec]

You make us curious!

[RL36D]

well even check out marsalis playing the song.

this is just fucken typing.

white jass never had no ass.

and i know as i been a no-ass white boy

playing white jass for twenty years.

back i go to finish soldering my 1860 helicon.

[santopec]

Matter of taste.

[RL36D]

shit is a matter of taste.

this is typing.

[jeffkahl]

I have a version by Mississippi John Hurt that is great too!

[DADRENO]

I thought I heard Buddy Bolden Say "It's nasty it's dirty - take it away...

[Lutemann]

Ray,

I've always thought Bolden recorded. Those wax cylinder players were capable of recording (I think) so it would have been difficult for Bolden to remain unrecorded, IMO. Did Allen say that Bolden was recorded at a studio?

[graeme101]

humphrey lyttleton is the MAN!!!

[LamenameRodriguez]

Thanks for this great vid. Humph's knowledge and enthusiasm is always a joy