[Tradjazz] Impact Recordings

[Steve Barbone]

"Ken Gates" <kwg28 at sbcglobal.net> wrote (polite snip)
 
> Anyone care to add to this list?  Remember--IMPACT on MUSICIANS is the
> point of this---not favorite recordings.  And maybe a comment as to how it
> made
> an impact.

And I responded with Ko Ko.

I get the digest form of this chat list and hope that somebody didn't beat
me to it and this bores folks, but how could I have been so remiss to forget
the most impacting record I can think of;

ODJB 1917 - Side A Dixieland One Step, Side B Livery Stable Blues.

My goodness, countless bands copied their 5 piece make up after hearing that
record and the others which followed. Even Louis Armstrong listened to ODJB
and is quoted as saying:

"We thought they were great. Everybody was blowing a whole lot of jazz in
New Orleans but ODJB's the one that put it over." In fact, Louis is said to
have memorized Larry Shield's clarinet solos with which to intimidate other
cornet players.

Bechet listen too, but he downplayed them as copycats who stole black and/or
traditional tunes and copyrighted them.

And when I was a kid in NYC in the 1940s/50s, I listened to them in
wonderment because Tony Spargo (nee Sbarbaro of ODJB fame) was playing a
swinging NYC style at Nicks with Pee Wee Erwin in a sort of evolution of
what ODJB started and I wanted to do that too.
 
Cheers,
Steve Barbone