[Tradjazz] Impact Records - Impact performances

[Bill Barnes]

Hi Steve:
           I recall you used to date Hank D'Amico's daughter back then, too.
           The radio shows you mentioned were Ted Husing's in NYC ( He also 
announced the Dodger games along with Red Barber, or was it the Giants?). 
That's the show that got me interested in Dixieland.
          The other show, from New Orleans, was Tony Almerico's All Stars 
from the Blue Room of - what was the hotel? It's still there..........
                                               Your old buddy
                                                      Bill Barnes
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: <tradjazz at list.okom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:26 AM
Subject: [Tradjazz] Impact Records - Impact performances


> As a kid, I didn't have the money to buy a lot of records but there was
> plenty of recorded jazz on the radio. I remember a radio program every
> afternoon with Dixieland. Listened to all kinds of OKOM on it from 
> Armstrong
> and Bechet to Pecora, Nicholas, Picou and countless others.
>
> And there was a radio program from New Orleans that you could also get.
> Needless to say, I listened all the time to these, even joined the New
> Orleans Jazz Club. Also listened to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and others
> including Tont Scott and Buddy DeFranco.
>
> Influences? I agree with Bruce. Armstrong for pure swinging and time
> variations within the beat. Dodds, Darnell Howard, Goodman, Shaw, Simeon,
> Lewis, Edmond Hall and Pee Wee Russell for the different ways in which 
> they
> approached communication with the clarinet, my chosen instrument. And to
> Scott and DeFranco for a plethora of "New" ideas.
>
> When I was 15, Hank D'Amico, a neighbor, took me to NYC clubs to meet
> Bechet, Simeon, WBD, Condon, Scott, DeFranco, Erwin and all the other
> players on the NYC scene in the 40s and 50s.
>
> It was a time when OKOM and other jazz forms were all over NYC. You 
> couldn't
> help but soak up the various sounds.
>
> My philosophical influence was Conrad Janis' Band. He started as a New
> Orleans Style revivalist later adding lots of black, blues based ex-swing
> musicians to his mix. The result was a swinging form of free blowing OKOM
> that stays with me till this day.
>
> Wonderful times gigging with Chuck Traeger, Gene Schroeder, Coleman 
> Hawkins,
> Roy Eldridge and others, plus sitting in at Nicks, and with Monk at The 
> Five
> Spot and Miff Mole on Long Island and learning first and foremost that the
> music should always swing and that visual effects and/or persona should be
> an integral part of the show.
>
> My oh my, what a great era with so many different OKOM styles to hear. And
> so many great players who gave freely of their time and advice to a young,
> eager wannabe who could barely play back then, but was learning.
>
> The effect of the influences? That one should develop one's own voice as a
> jazz player. Be different. Find your own way and ignore the critics or 
> those
> who are wedded to the way it was, or the way is should be. For jazz,
> including OKOM exists in the present tense, here and now. Just do it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
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