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This evening we returned to Brian White's Magna jazz band's new venue, The Manor in Old Malden. Ken Reece was on cornet and Jim Mcintosh was on banjo (pictured together).
Our favourite numbers were as follows:
1. The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise, by the concert pianist Ernest Seitz, who had conceived the refrain when he was 12. Embarrassed about writing popular music, Seitz used the pseudonym "Raymond Roberts" when the song was first published by Chappell in 1919. The link is to a famous banjo feature by the Firehouse five plus two.
2. Clarinet Marmalade, composed in 1918 by Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. This link is to that very band.
3. Tin Roof Blues, the link being to the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, who claimed to have composed it. It was actually stolen from an early blues riff by legendary New Orleans cornetist Buddy Petit called 'Rusty Nail Blues'.

Labels: Jazz