| Ensemble | Multiple Ensembles |
|---|---|
| Date | Wednesday, August 5th, 1992 |
| Time | 8:00pm |
| Event Type | Concert |
| Project | Blue Clarinet Stomp: The Music of Johnny Dodds |
| Venue | Alice Tully Hall |
| Address | 1941 Broadway at W 65th St |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Venue Phone | +1 212-721-6500 |
This evening’s concert will celebrate the art of two New Orleans masters, composer-pianist Jelly Roll Morton (1885-1941) and clarinetist Johnny Dodds (1892-1940), each an essential figure in the development of jazz and an example of how important homemade musicians were to the early years of the idiom. They were both from the street. That is not to say that there wasn’t a complex of techniques and nuances demanded of the professional, but that Morton and Dodds arrived in the period when jazz was so new that there were no formal situations in which one could learn the craft. Musicians then had to learn from masters, from listening, from working on things at home that they tried out in jam sessions, learning what they should continue to wrestle with or discard.
Personnel
- Freddie Lonzo – trombone
- Marcus Roberts – piano
- Don Vappie – banjo, guitar
- Wycliffe Gordon – trombone
- Dr. Michael White – clarinet
- Herlin Riley – drums, tambourine
- Nicholas Payton – trumpet
- Steve Pistorius – piano
- Reginald Veal – bass
- Todd Williams – tenor sax, soprano sax
Conductor
Setlist
Set I:
- Sidewalk Blues
- The Pearls
- Smoke House Blues
- Wolverine Blues
- The Crave
- Jungle Blues
- Mr Jelly Lord
- Wild Man Blues
- Georgia Swing
Set II:
- Weary Blues
- Too Tight
- Perdido Street Blues
- Lady Love
- Joe Turner’s Blues
- Blue Clarinet Stomp
- Come On And Stomp, Stomp, Stomp