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Listen
to sound samples from the CD below
Oh!
By Jingo!
Rose Of Washington Square
Oriental Strut
I'm Comin' Virginia
Wise Guy
Beale Street Blues
Cakewalking Babies
Tin Roof Blues
King Chanticleer
Michigan Water Blues
New Orleans Stomp
My Little Bimbo
Tin Roof Blues (alt.)
Rose Of Wash. Square (alt.)
King Chanticleer (alt.)
Michigan Water Blues (alt.)
I'm Comin' Virginia (alt.)
New Orleans Stomp (alt.)
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Clancy
Hayes - OH! BY JINGO!
With The Original
Salty Dogs Jazz Band
Clancy
Hayes' name is a well-known to two generations of TRAD jazz fans who
remember his hit recordings with Bob Scobey's Frisco Jazz band. The new
generation of jazz fans, unprejudiced by the "Bop Wars," able to
take a timeless view of all forms of jazz, can enjoy this, one of Clancy
Hayes' last studio recordings. Clancy died in 1971 at the age of 63 but
his good-time music continues to brighten our lives. Meanwhile, the Salty
Dogs continue to give us an idea of the robust sound of vintage jazz. (Liner
note by Bob Koester from original pressing)
One thing more about Clancy: he had TIME, and he could swing a vocal as no
one ever has. That's because he knows what MAKES swing: the
placement of syllables/notes against the bar lines, and when to accent.
Phrasing. As proof, compare Clancy's versions of "St. James
Infirmary" with Watters, at that shaggy medium tempo, with any
others. He got all the words in, without jamming them together, and SWUNG
them. At that tempo, far removed from the "Infirmary's" usual
slow dirge, almost anyone else (with the quite possible exceptions of Turk
and Jack Teagarden) would have phrased themselves right off the bar lines,
out of the meter, and into Squirm City. He had a sort of lazy quality, but
without a sense of lagging - it's relaxation that largely contributes to
swing - and he sat right on the beat. (Additional liner note by Wayne
Jones, 1975 second pressing)
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