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Dirty jazz served chilled at the Cotton Club!

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The image of jazz/blues has been tarnished through time. Lets all sit down and applaud in a polite fashion. Feeling cool knowing the tunes of Miles Davis, Ella & Bo.... lets not! Did you really hear what they had to say?This is about tunning in to the truth they laid. When they were able to speak of the feelings they felt and not just puppets of popular producers.We are talking freestyle, pain, sex, politics and violence here. In short JAZZ & BLUES!It has been alleged that the cotton club itself was associated with its fair share of gangsters, violence and policy less than favourable to black people. Having said that some of the greatest jazz talent was found and cultivated there.All the artists on this page played there. Props to them all.If this doesnt make you feel like crying you are indeed a strange fruit. Flapped out! Ella more talented than you first thought. If Bessie can show jazz has two heads... well... ella can can show you the third! Oh lord aint it cold,but Im not gonna holler, cause Ive still got a dollar. And when I get low, Oooo I get high (Ella Fitzgerald).

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Louis (Satchmo) Essential mouthage: The nickname Satchmo or Satch is short for Satchelmouth (describing his embouchure). In 1932, then Melody Maker magazine editor Percy Brooks greeted Armstrong in London with "Hello, Satchmo!" shortening Satchelmouth (some say unintentionally), and it stuck.CabEssential Cabbage: spent most of his nights at the Dreamland Cafe the Sunset Cafe and the Club Berlin, performing as a drummer, singer and emcee.At the Sunset Cafe he met and performed with Louis Armstrong who taught him to sing in the "scat" style. And well the rest his history.Jazz & infidelity Aw, you dog, you dirty dog, You better stop your sniffing around like that; I know just what you're driving at!Aw, you dog, you salty dog, You sniffing, snapping, yipping, yapping, Aw, you dog!They got the news all over town, You and my wife been running 'round, Stop it 'fore I mow you down, Aw, you dog!Deacon Green's been talking, too, He says that he saw you Kiss my wife in the pew, Aw, you dog!Aw, you dog, you ornery dog, You better stop your sniffing around like that; I know just what you're driving at!(Cab Calloway).The cotton Sugar Hill Harlem please! Harlem was jazz central. Trainage ! : "Take the 'A' Train" was composed in 1939, after Ellington offered Strayhorn a job in his organization and gave him money to travel from Pittsburgh to New York. Ellington wrote directions for Strayhorn to get to his house by subway, directions that began, "Take The A Train."

My Blog

Jazz age slang

Jazz age womenFirstly, in jazz age slang there are about a thousand ways to describe women of varying degrees of attractiveness/age/sanity. Skirts were coming up (think of the 1920s flappers), make-up...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:25:00 GMT

Jass Dirtography

Kitty-cab does all the dirty work so you dont have to!This list will grow and grow and ....If you've thrown a track my way. Thank you for being a DIRTY SAUCE! Makin it Chemical content Freestyle Pulli...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:21:00 GMT

So where to go?.....well.... take a time cab!

Jazz Clubs The following list give the addresses of other jazz clubs that are no longer found in Harlem, their fate and/or their most famous featured band or star:a. Congo Room of the Capitol, West 11...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:23:00 GMT

Basin street is a street.....where the wealthy could their end away so joy could meet!

Establishments in Storyville ranged from cheap "cribs" to more expensive houses up to a row of elegant mansions along Basin Street for well-heeled customers (the term "crib" originated in San Francisc...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:52:00 GMT