Burgundy Street Blues - LINO PATRUNO At the Doria Jazz Club

Burgundy Street Blues - LINO PATRUNO At the Doria Jazz Club
Claudio Perelli - clarinetto

Lino Patruno - banjo
Roberto Piccolo - contrabbasso
Walter Ganda - batteria

Doria Jazz Club
Milano 24 marzo 2009
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George Lewis (13 July 1900 31 December 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later decades of his life.

Born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, his legal name was, Joseph Louis Francois Zenon. Lewis was playing clarinet professionally by 1917, at the age of seventeen. He played with Buddy Petit and Chris Kelly regularly, and, sometimes with the now-legendary trombonist Kid Ory and many other band leaders. At this time, he seldom traveled far from the greater New Orleans area.

Author Gary Giddins describes him as "an affecting musician with a fat-boned sound but limited technique".[2]

During the Great Depression he took a job as a stevedore, continuing to take as many music jobs after hours as he could find.

In 1942 some jazz fans and writers came to New Orleans to record the legendary older trumpeter Bunk Johnson. Bunk picked Lewis for the recording session. Previously almost unknown outside of New Orleans, Lewis impressed many participating in the project and the listeners at the sessions. Soon, he made his first recordings under his own name for American Music Records, a label created by Bill Russell to document the music of Bunk Johnson and other surviving older jazz musicians and bands in New Orleans.

Although purists such as Alan Lomax held Lewis up as an exemplar of what jazz was before commercialism, in Gary Giddins's descriptive words, Lewis was "no dinosaur". When Lomax brought Lewis on a Rudi Blesh's radio show in 1942, he proceeded to play the solo from Woody Herman's then-recent hit, Woodchopper's Ball, bur his hosts had no idea that Lewis was applying his distinctive style to one of the latest hot tunes.

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