Muskrat Ramble - Dixieland Crackerjacks

Muskrat Ramble
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Trumpet player Michel Muller sings Kid Ory's Muskrat Ramble in Dutch!
Slidin' Selena, who sometimes gets critisized for playing too clean, here proves that she is perfectly able to play the rough and ready tailgate style whenever she wants to.
Lielian Tan on drums and Koos Greven, banjo play there nicely swinging groove and Bert Brandsma gives one of his virtuosic and surprisingly inventive solos on the Bass-saxophone.
Recorded in Zwolle, the Netherlands, July 4. 2007.

Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 -- January 23, 1973) was a jazz trombonist, composer and bandleader.
Ory is considered as being the most important Tailgate trombone player of all times.

He starred in movies like: New Orleans (1947) and the Benny Goodman story (1955)

He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.

Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well regarded band in South-East Louisiana. He kept La Place as his base of operations due to family obligations until his 21st birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans, Louisiana.

He had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the greats, including cornetists Joe "King" Oliver, Mutt Carey, and Louis Armstrong; and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.

In 1919 he moved to Los Angeles, one of a number of New Orleans musicians to do so at about that time, and he recorded there in 1922 with a band including Mutt Carey, clarinetist (also a pianist) Dink Johnson, and string bassist Ed Garland. (Garland and Carey were longtime associates who were still with Ory during his 1940s comeback.) In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago, where he was very active, working and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, "King" Oliver, Johnny Dodds, and many others.

During the Great Depression Ory retired from music in 1933, and would not play again until 1943. From 1944 to about 1961 he led one of the top New Orleans style bands of the period. In addition to Mutt Carey and Ed Garland, trumpeters Alvin Alcorn and Teddy Buckner; clarinetists Darnell Howard, Jimmie Noone, Albert Nicholas, Barney Bigard, and George Probert; pianists Buster Wilson and Don Ewell; and drummer Minor Hall were among his sidemen during this period. All but Probert, Buckner, and Ewell were originally from New Orleans. The Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular radio broadcasts -- among them a number of slots on Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre broadcast and a jazz history series sponsored by Standard Oil -- and recordings.

Ory was also the composer of numbers including "Muskrat Ramble", "Ory's Creole Trombone", and "Savoy Blues".

Ory retired from music in 1966 and spent his last years in Hawaii.

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• kid
• ory
• muskrat
• ramble
• dixieland
• crackerjacks
• slidin
• selena
• bert
• brandsma
• michel
• muller
• lielian
• tan
• koos
• greven
• zwolle

[qtadosol]

Excellent playing! I enjoyed all of you! Nice relaxed drumming, excellent solos and happy ukulele, all the way along! You should come to Silves, Algarve, and play at the "Café Inglês", near the castle, onde day!! They normally have bands of all sorts there, you would sound great, in June, July or September, when it's less ectic around here (avoid the confusion of August!)! Greetings!

Miguel

[ABrandsma]

@qtadosol That would be great!

[davewm49]

music is truely the international language - great job Guys

[shawnsto]

What really can be said here? PURE JOY!

ALL I can say IS GET LOST IN THEIR GENIUS!

Can anyone capture true dixie LIKE THESE GUYS

GOD'S PEACE

SHAWN

[merfe97]

great trumpet

[carlosbosta]

Muito bom....

Parabéns.........

A voz do cantor é demais...

Very Good!!!

Rio de Janeiro/Brasil

[sandogbear]

We 4 San Diegans will be traveling to Amsterdam this August 2011 are you playing any gigs? What should we do while we are in the neighborhood?

[harrison58]

Miss Lielian is super-enthusiastic on this number!  I guess she likes the "Kid." Then again, who doesn't...?

[nilda3181]

Great unusuel bass saxophone



[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Hey Bert, GREAT playing. I've been playing the saxophone for more years than I like to think about, mostly the tenor and I FINALLY conquered the # 4 reed and learned how to play softly when required but it would HONK when called upon. I found a 2 1/2 about right for the bass. Unfortunately I never played like Tex Beneke....nor you. Wonderful job with that big bass. My compliments

[ABrandsma]

Yes, that would be great to play the Costa Brava. Let's hope that will come true.

Kind regards,

Bert

[whitefalcon64]

@ABrandsma Hi Bert. I know you from sometime ago, I'm a saxes fan, (although I don't play) and searchin' on Youtube for a bass sax, met you playin' "Sweet Georgia Brown". If you ever play in the Costa Brava, please feel free to let me know. Keep doin' your great job !! PEPE