Where do you draw the line?

OLDUDE

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What music

Hi guys,
For me "jazz" has many flavours and the 2 tracks by Earl Bostic would qualify within the "swing" flavour.

Cheers John

Did we ever get round to deciding whether Earl Bostik played Jazz, rhythm and blues, Rock and roll, or my own feel that it was Swing as it had never been played before?
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Probably on the borders of Jazz, R & B and Swing, difficult to place. I quite enjoy some of his tracks, nostalgia does play a big part in that though.
 

OLDUDE

New member
Hi Mike,
How far back does Flamingo go?.
for me it seems to blend with the time I was just starting to take up jazz in a big way - Maybe about 50 years ago?

Cheers John
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Hi John, the Bostik recording was 1951, originally written 1941 according to Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_%28song%29

Wiki also mention the Bostik recording as topping the R&B charts

I recall it from my early days in the RAF, usd to get played 2 or 3 times an evening in the NAAFI canteen at No 2 Radio School, RAF Yatesbury, along with Kenton, Les Paul, Frankie Laine, Peggy Lee, Kay Starr, Muggsy Spanier and many others.

Nostalgia rules - OK?
 

OLDUDE

New member
Hi Mike,
I'm assuming you are referring to Juke Box music?
That must have been some NAAFI canteen.
I was in the army from '55 to '57 but never found much jazz in my canteens.

(mind you there was a big difference in the comforts offered between Army and RAF - when I was in Famagusta during 1957, us army types lived in tents during the whole range of weather and our canteen was really basic.
Next door was a RAF camp and they slept in luxurious air-conditioned huts and their canteen set-up was great but army wasn't allowed in. -Typical)

Cheers John
 

Dorsetmike

Member
We did have a juke box, but the NAAFI had a stage and behind it a control room which volunteers manned evenings playing 78s over a locally lashed up system (it was a radio school so plent of electronic bodies) Wednesday evening would be a "talent show" usually including a couple of topical/satirical sketches and various musical or comedy acts (I used to murder pieces on the harmonica)

Small world, I was just a bit west of you in 1957 at Akrotiri, did my spell in tents at Kasfareet in the canal zone in '55, there it was just hot all the time, sand, heat and flies!

I finished up doing 23 years in the RAF, mostly it was better than working for a living!! :rolleyes:
 

OLDUDE

New member
23 years Mike - amazing.
I bet you wouldn't have stuck the army that long.
2 years was a nightmare.

Cheers John
 
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